TheEthicsOfForecasting

Context: AlgorithmicDespotism

Wired pointing out that forecasting undermines FreeWill not only in a philosophical sense but in a practical sense too.

https://www.wired.com/story/algorithmic-prophecies-undermine-free-will/

One major ethical problem is that by making forecasts about human behavior just like we make forecasts about the weather, we are treating people like things. Part of what it means to treat a person with respect is to acknowledge their agency and ability to change themselves and their circumstances. If we decide that we know what someone’s future will be before it arrives, and treat them accordingly, we are not giving them the opportunity to act freely and defy the odds of that prediction.

Compare :

• AIMindReading
• TheEndOfInsurance
• EthicalAI , AIProblems
• AmericanExistentialism

See also :

• TheFuture