Åsa är en så'n otrolig hjälte. Veckans avslöjande.
Nu vill man ju förstås gräva i varenda citat.
@asa.tsbalans.se: Innan vi tar helg, en kul liten citatspårning! Nov 2022. Johan Magnusson, forskare i informationssystem, skriver en debattartikel. Han vill att välfärden ska tänkas om så att den kan "leverera 125 % av välfärden i relation till dagens mått, med 75 % av bemanningen." www.voister.se/artikel/2022...
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I keep hearing…
"Everybody needs to start using AI!"
and…
"Ha! AI is everywhere. If you're using the internet you're almost certainly using AI."
Well, job done then. Have a good one.
↩ Replying to @molly.wiki
Exactly this! Not having any of these trackers is the only thing that makes sense to me after what we know about the misuse of data collection.
So many people also draw faulty conclusions from the data, when they fail to understand how the internet works.
And best of all of course… I get to spend more time writing rather than bothering with stats. 🥳
The Old Man S2:E1 VIII
Here we go.
I often put "AI" in quotation marks as I think it’s a flawed expression that includes everything and nothing, selling a vision of machines that do not exist. Every time I repeat it, I give it legitimacy, which hurts a little.
A fairy falls ill every time someone says "AI" with a straight face. 😉
↩ Replying to @hpdailyrant.bsky.social
Those look about the right size for glühwein.
To gauge honesty Geiger asked for info that was publicly available in the annual report. The response back was “the information you asked for is confidential”.
This is a government agency responsible for caring for humans. Sweden’s rampant abuse of power is slowly being revealed to more people.
@gabrielgeiger.bsky.social: I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”
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↩ Replying to @roguehci.bsky.social
💯 agreed.
I’m a fan of SALAMI. 😊
blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets...
My assertion that AI discrimination has been going on for decades was questioned. I told them about the FICO credit score algorithm, applied industry-wide since 1989.
Don’t want to call that AI? Many less complex algorithms have been referred to as AI over the years.
time.com/3961676/hist...
The Long, Twisted History of Your Credit Score
Discrimination based on data collection, surveillance and invisible calculations by machines is not a new phenomenon. It is as old as the computerization of society. Modern AI just carries on the tradition – with a flashier, more good-looking costume.
↩ Replying to @laurawilson44.bsky.social
Excellent. And glad I piqued your curiosity. About to head off to sleep but this is a good place to start with regards to the types of topics I tend to write about:
axbom.com/elements/
Happy to carry on the conversation when I’m in Bluesky mode again 😊
The harmful effects of technology can be managed and mitigated. But not if we do not talk about them. Nor if we allow ourselves to be misled to focus on misleading narratives.
Guidance and talking points prioritising your work with "smart" tools:
axbom.com/aielements/
#AIEthics #DigitalEthics
↩ Replying to @thewhynotlab.com
That is awesome. Had not seen it before.
↩ Replying to @thewhynotlab.com
Very much so.
And really saddening when Sweden prides itself on a culture of openness and transparency, how off-limits these "tools" are for journalists.
I truly expect more to be released on this.
The algorithm has been in place since 2013. I doubt it’s legal. The defense is “our model doesn’t discriminate"
An inability to understand how algorithms exacerbate inequality, even when not specifically programmed to do so, is one of the most distressing competence shortfalls in the public sector.
@axbom.com: Scoop today in Sweden's daily SvD showing how women, especially with foreign backgrounds, are disproportionately incorrectly marked as 'cheaters' by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, when they apply for temporary parental benefit (vab). Yes, by an automated system. www.svd.se/a/Rzmg9x/for...
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↩ Replying to @arn.is
Definitely. I like how an enough mentality encourages me to shout ENOUGH! at bad stuff. 😜
Instead of a GROWTH mentality I've been cultivating an ENOUGH mentality.
It's friggin' liberating.
Some tasks handed over to automation should never have been tasks in the first place. Or should at least be revised regularly. But instead of questioning and reinventing tasks, many will now run perpetually.
And with no human involved, why would someone question its validity?
per.ax/auto
Scoop today in Sweden's daily SvD showing how women, especially with foreign backgrounds, are disproportionately incorrectly marked as 'cheaters' by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, when they apply for temporary parental benefit (vab).
Yes, by an automated system.
www.svd.se/a/Rzmg9x/for...
