AI alarmists warn that machine learning will end up destroying humanity — or at the very least make humans redundant. But what if the real worry was more mundane — that AI tools simply do a bad job?That is what Hilke Schellmann, a reporter and professor at New York University, felt after spending five years investigating tools that are now widely used by employers in hiring, firing and management. Bots increasingly dictate which job ads we see online, which CVs recruiters read, which applicants make it to a final interview and which employees receive a promotion, bonus — or redundancy notice. But in this world where algorithms “define who we are, where we excel, and where we struggle . . . what if the algorithms get it wrong?” asks Schellmann in The Algorithm, an account of her findings.
就人工智慧發表危言聳聽的論調的人會警告說，機器學習終將毀滅人類——或者至少讓人類變得多餘。但如果說真正令人擔憂的問題其實更加平常無奇呢？比如人工智慧工具其實活幹的很糟糕。