Artificial Intelligence / Unit 10 AI 0593 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Algorithm Is Objective — It's Math"
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The idea
The arithmetic is neutral the way a photocopier is neutral — reproducing inputs at speed, and the inputs are human choices: pile, labels, objective, utilities.
In practice
A biased human decides one case at a time, inconsistently, appealably; a biased model decides every case identically, costumed as neutrality.
Where people slip
"Is it biased?" asks about provenance and measured behavior — never about whether math can want things.
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