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Jurgen Appelo's avatar

Very simple: You cannot take humans out of the loop as long as AIs and algorithms cannot be made accountable for their decisions. It doesn't matter if a car is fully self-driving or a recruiter AI is fully autonomous. What happens when the machine's decision leads to a scandal, damage or death? Which humans are then accountable? Those humans are *still* in the loop.

Humans are only really out of the loop when nobody is accountable for what the AI does.

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Priya Tahiliani's avatar

I love your bold take! It’s almost like we have anchored to this safe space “human in the loop” when we know in the long run its going to be a different narrative. I agree with the above comment too that AI is not ready to make decisions and its a long way to go! But lets think about this - Tesla’s goal with self drive car is clear - no humans in the loop! That gives me hint that I have missed my chance of pursuing a driver’s career in this lifetime and that I should think of something else! So it at least prepares me to take an alternative career!

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