Automated decision making & Artificial Intelligence

There is a large cross-over between automated decision making and artificial intelligence, therefore they are merged together in a single document.

Good

• Less strain on workers
• Real-world application
  • Medical diagnosis
    • Pattern recognition
    • Artificial intelligence
  • Fraud detection
    • i.e., what Stripe does; pattern recognition
  • Anything in day-to-day life
    • Traffic lights
    • Recruitment
    • Stock market bots
• Intended to be fair and unbiased

Bad

• Who takes responsibility for the decision?
  • What if the fault for the decision is not due to them?
  • What if the fault for the decision is due to atmospheric interference?
• Can be make unfair/biased by poor data
• Lack of trust
  • Recent technological developments
  • Transparency
• (AI only) Environmental effects
  • Intensive to run - requires obscene amounts of energy
• Employment effects
  • May replace human jobs - higher unemployment rates
• Access to technology
  • Access to technology to run LLMs (large language models) in expensive and hard to come-by