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eric

@eric@social.coop

#Ethics by design, AI risks, collectives.
This account is a tribute to Mary P. Follett: https://social.coop/@eric/tagged/Follett

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eric, to IsraelPalestine
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is traditionally used in France to reduce the moth population.

Only a small proportion of French Jews emigrate to . These Binationals are subject to compulsory military service.

This army prepared and launched the first in 2021: https://techhub.social/@estelle/111510965384428730

A development team has designed a more efficient product, which a Frenchman has suggested calling Lavander: https://techhub.social/@estelle/112220409975979758 @palestine

eric, to Ethics
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There is no judicial truth. Organisations cannot "do Justice". Let's discuss the biases of the judicial institutions.

! to be followed @sociology @ethics

eric,
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The "fiction of the neutrality of the judge and of her decisions, symbolised by the assertion of a uniform judicial body under her black robe, does not stand to a scientific approach".

"Analysis of structural logics and observation of judicial practices reveal the existence of decision-making biases that are less individual than collective, less subjective than systemic."

Jacques Faget in "L’acte de juger et ses biais" (2018) https://www.cairn.info/revue-deliberee-2018-3-page-27.htm @sociology

eric,
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Unitary management:
"A good decision is no longer a decision legally well-supported, but a decision made within a reasonable time, which will not be appealed and whose application will incur fewer costs."

Jacques Faget in "L’acte de juger et ses biais" (2018) https://www.cairn.info/revue-deliberee-2018-3-page-27.htm @ethics

eric,
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Risk tools come to still improve our chances. A study shows:
➤ Risk assessment reduces the likelihood of incarceration for relatively affluent defendants,
➤ Risk assessment increases the likelihood of incarceration for relatively poor defendants.

(2020) https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000360

eric,
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Technique cements bias:
Pretrial risk assessment algorithms (2021) https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/risk-assessment-algorithms-can-unfairly-impact-court-decisions

@sociology @ethics

eric, to webdev
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Craig Abbot rants that a criterion cannot be partially compliant: https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/partially-supported-is-not-supported via @juliemoynat

eric,
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Here is a measure of how much developers choose to make browsers work (to parse, keep in memory, execute):
JavaScript download (all caching disabled, aka. cold load):
0.2 MB – Wikipedia
0.4 MB – Mastodon
1.4 MB – PornHub
3 MB – Medium
7 MB – Airbnb
10 MB – Pinterest
11 MB – Patreon
12 MB – Youtube
16 MB – Instagram
20 MB – Gmail
31 MB – Linkedin
55 MB – Slack

Some details are here: https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/

maugendre, to iPhone
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It has already been possible to change an 's default web browser through the "Settings" app since iOS 14.

has a March 6 legal deadline to introduce app sideloading in the European Union in order to comply with the Digital Markets Act , and iOS 17.4 will add support for this. will allow Apple users to download apps outside of the App Store, but the change will be limited to customers in the EU.

Now is an opportunity to improve your web experience… and your safety…

eric,
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"As a result of the DMA the tech giant allows to install other browsers as defaults. Apple ensured that these browsers can no longer use WebKit because it would make them faster than Safari. To this end, the tech giant blocked the WebKit API in iOS 17.4."
https://www.techzine.eu/news/privacy-compliance/116980/apples-changes-to-comply-with-the-dma-opens-new-european-antitrust-investigation/

eric, to ai French
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"Là où on pense qu’il n’y a que machines et procédures automatiques, il y a en fait des humains qui chopent des tendinites et doivent faire des choix compliqués.[…] Là où on pense que les catégories sont claires, qu’il y a des données et des résultats, on s’aperçoit que les données ne sont pas données, qu’il faut les construire et que dans cette construction, entrent de la subjectivité, de la morale et même de la politique."
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-code-a-change/le-code-a-change-6-5342040 @dataGovernance

eric, to Ethics
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Watch Rebecca L. Walker on risk assessment and "moral status": https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3rQi2uNqwxk&listen=0 @ethics

eric, to ai
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Rating agencies may still freely automatically "score" individuals if it does not provide critical decision-making support.

Takeaways from the CJEU's recent rulings on automated decision-making: https://iapp.org/news/a/key-takeaways-from-the-cjeus-recent-automated-decision-making-rulings/ @ai

eric,
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The AI Act will not ban the bulk of biometric mass surveillance . "Restrictions on the use of live and retrospective facial recognition in the AI Act will be minimal, and will not apply to private companies or administrative authorities":
https://reclaimyourface.eu/eu-ai-act-will-fail-commitment-to-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance/ @dataGovernance @data @ai @eu

eric, to ethics
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@military @ethics 🧵

I am starting a thread on killing at warfare:

eric,
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"While casualty counting during modern conflicts is deficient due to organizational, political or strategic reasons, the international organizations responsible for collecting such data […] face difficulties to access the conflict scene, resulting in under-reported, unreliable or no-reported data."

A meta-analysis published in 2021: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.765261/full

eric,
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"War deaths from malnutrition and a damaged health system and environment likely far outnumber deaths from combat."

"An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in US war zones since 2001, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting."

at Brown University: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians

During 1990–2017, contributed about 29 million civilian on the planet, not killing: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01708-5

eric,
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"We can see the division of the globe into grievable and ungrievable lives from the perspective of those who wage war in order to defend the lives of certain communities, and to defend them against the lives of others — even if it means taking those latter lives."

from Judith Butler’s 2009 book “Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?”: https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/judith-butler-precariousness-and-grievability-when-is-life-grievable/2826

eric,
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"The Principle of , codified in Protocol I Additional to the Conventions, defines as disproportionate any attack in which the incidental damage to civilians is excessive in relation to the military advantage anticipated from the attack. However, it is close to impossible to pinpoint exactly what is meant by “excessive”. This writer posits that this vagueness is not a coincidence, but rather a tool, serving the purposes of attacking states."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=908369

eric,
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"One ‘moral technology’ plays a central role in contemporary Western wars: ‘rules of engagement’. These rules take the form of (written) texts which state the circumstances under which the soldiers/airmen are authorized to open fire. Their claim to ‘morality’ stems from the fact that they present themselves as invitations to ‘master’ violence. [They] provide a concrete and operational translation of the ‘proportionality’ principle by stating how many ‘non-combatants’ airmen are allowed to kill"…

eric,
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… "This choice implies a ‘transfer of risks’ to non-Western civilians (Shaw 2006)."

in Mathias Delori (2019): https://www.mathiasdelori.com/publications/humanitarian-violence-how-french-airmen-kill-or-let-die-in-order-to-make-live/ @ethics @military @armee

eric, to ai
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systems accelerate the pace of war. "AI can contribute to mis- or disinformation, creating and amplifying dangerous misunderstandings in times of war. AI systems may increase the human tendency to trust suggestions from machines (this is highlighted by the Habsora system, named after the infallible word of God)".
"If a person has enough similarities to other people labelled as an enemy combatant, they too may be labelled a combatant themselves."

https://theconversation.com/israels-ai-can-produce-100-bombing-targets-a-day-in-gaza-is-this-the-future-of-war-219302 @ethics @ai

eric,
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delivers

By design delivers whatever.
How it works is that the engineer takes obtained , grabs some probabilities and then the software outputs answers at scale.
If answers could be "true" is out of the scope.

image via @jvschrag @ethics

eric, to Quotes
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"A ratings system like ’s is prone to reputation inflation and becoming less informative. So why not change it? Maybe because the point isn’t really to inform platform users, it’s to indirectly control the workforce."
⸺
Ali : https://oversharing.substack.com/p/five-stars-or-bust

eric,
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"Explainer: Challenging Worker Datafication"
By Alexandra Mateescu @alexandraclaudia @datasociety: https://datasociety.net/library/challenging-worker-datafication/ @ethics

eric, to Health
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"Micromanagement is fundamentally incompatible with psychological safety. And without psychological safety, teams don’t innovate, learn from their mistakes, or grow in ability."

"How a toxic style impacts team ": https://sites.google.com/schrag.ca/consulting/home/micromanagement-and-psychological-safety by @jvschrag

eric,
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"Explainer: Challenging Worker
Datafication"

By Alexandra Mateescu @alexandraclaudia @datasociety: https://datasociety.net/library/challenging-worker-datafication/ @ethics

talkinto, to Sociology German
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If we live in a "solutionist age" (remember: E. Morozov), why are technological solutions to the climate issue ( e.g. direct air capture) so unpopular (meaning: at least in Germany, I don't see any significant public support)?

Any educated guess?

@sociologists_list @sociology @sociology

eric,
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The present post only is a complement to the excellent answer by @ds

@talkinto
Indeed people are reluctant to solutions coming from the industry. Witness the enormous literature on .

Hence we do not live in a "solutionist age". Morozov stirred a moral panic to boost his sales. Which worked.
Do you know about Herbert ?

@anthropocene @technique @climate

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