Stanford CIS

The Looming Threat of Artificial Unintelligence

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"“I'm worried that there could be some unanticipated, emergent phenomenon,” says Calo. “For instance, maybe it'll turn out that lots and lots of people were denied a loan offer or a credit card offer, and it's because an algorithm found that they were surfing on a predominantly African-American social network. And no one involved in that will have been purposely racist, but it'll be a huge scandal.”"