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Bias is part of being human. We have positions, perspectives, cultures, lenses through which we see things. AI models are trained through reinforcement learning — gently nudging the AI in particular directions. But there is often no single correct answer to an ethical question. David Hume famously argued that you cannot derive an ought from an is — you cannot determine what the world should look like from what it currently is. The data is biased by history. And it is being further shaped, nudged, and corrected by a very specific group of people in a very specific part of the world at a very specific moment in history.
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This is a story of deceit, manipulation, lots of money, political lobbying, lawsuits, and, ultimately, covert theft. The history of the internet has been one of big capital pilfering from public investment and national infrastructure, the expropriation of academic research, of democratic open-source alternatives being forced illegally from the market, of devices to steal our privacy for profit being quickly snuck into hour homes, our cars, our watches, glasses, and phones. It’s a story of unethical business practices, of monopoly power, a story that could have been different, and, in the end, a story of competing dreams - hopes - of the future.
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A recent report released by Wealth-X showed that of the world's ultra-wealthy, those with a net worth of 30 million or more, 68 percent of them were self-made, and it seems like every other study backs up this conclusion. Warren Buffett, a self-made billionaire. Howard Schultz, born in poverty. Oprah Winfrey, born in poverty. Jeff Bezos, a self-made billionaire. Elon Musk, a self-made billionaire. Sara Blakely, a self-made billionaire. What is it that these people know that you don't?
Read MoreAs a nerd and documentarian, I strive to merge technical know-how with a journalist's insight that blends into new insigths and perspectives
