Who is responsible for designing equitable "Artificial" "Intelligence"?

Governments?

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"The software can scan footage including from closed-circuit television to automatically match faces and license plates to a police database and pick out suspects in a crowd."

Big Tech?

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"Amazonโ€™s program penalized applicants who attended all-womenโ€™s colleges, as well as any resumes that contained the word โ€œwomenโ€™sโ€ (as might appear in the phrase โ€œwomenโ€™s chess clubโ€)."

Institutions?

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"The company claims its research has found the software to be twice as accurate as human analysts when it comes to predicting where crimes will happen. "

Who is responsible for designing equitable "Artificial" "Intelligence"?

Governments?

Screenshot of article on Bloomberg with the title

"The software can scan footage including from closed-circuit television to automatically match faces and license plates to a police database and pick out suspects in a crowd."

Big Tech?

Screenshot of article on TheVerge with the title

"Amazonโ€™s program penalized applicants who attended all-womenโ€™s colleges, as well as any resumes that contained the word โ€œwomenโ€™sโ€ (as might appear in the phrase โ€œwomenโ€™s chess clubโ€)."

Institutions?

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"The company claims its research has found the software to be twice as accurate as human analysts when it comes to predicting where crimes will happen. "

Do Humans

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"Do robot things?"

Are they robots?

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  "Gets me from point A to B and I don't even have to talk"  

Or are they humans?

Are they robots?

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  "Gets me from point A to B and I don't even have to talk"  

Or are they humans?

Or are they robots?

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  "Things just magically show up"  

Or are they humans?

Or are they robots?

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  "Things just magically show up"  

Or are they humans?

Or are they robots?

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  "They should interview everyone the same way"  

Or are they humans?

Or are they robots?

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  "They should interview everyone the same way"  

Or are they humans?

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