The most blatant flaw with a law that protects employees against discrimination is that it pretends to know the employer's intentions. As such, determinations of discrimination will be subjective and at least partially emotionally driven (does this boss seem like a jerk?).
A more persuasive argument against such laws is that they don't work.
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We understand the world through our bias, and the best AI is that which best uses prejudice - identifying an object, for example. However, particular biases produce undesirable outcomes. The data on which an AI bases its determinations may be antithetical to what we want to see in the future.
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Critics of gentrification give two main reasons for their opposition: (1) wealthy newcomers drive up monthly rents, thereby displacing original residents, and (2) rapid change to neighbourhood culture represents negatively impacts the original residents.
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Let us imagine a world in which the US was not obsessed with race. A world in which a man is murdered by a police officer in a horrendous fashion, the police officer was charged with the crime, and the world went on. Perhaps we looked at why such an awful man was given a badge, and fix something about the hiring and training of officers.
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