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Hi I am sorry but I reverted your changes to Machine ethics. The article was pretty bad already, but your edits made it worse.

Working in Wikipedia is not like writing an essay, where you kind of say what you want and throw a source behind that. Instead, we read what reliable sources say, and summarize them here. '

Please read through User:Jytdog/How to get a sense of how this place works. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 06:53, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

The main change I added is adding "algorithmic fairness," which is a new research topic in machine learning. I go through all the relative wiki and think this one is the most suitable one.

The original article only talks about robotics but doesn't cover anything about the algorithm ethics. So I reorganize the article to incorporate the fairness section.

All the new citations are recent academic papers and reliable fact reports on the machine learning bias, which is not relevant to Asimov's comments on robots.

• Zafar, Muhammad Bilal; Valera, Isabel; Gomez Rodriguez, Manuel; Gummadi, Krishna P. (2017). "Fairness Beyond Disparate Treatment & Disparate Impact": 1171–1180. doi:10.1145/3038912.3052660.
• Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligences-white-guy-problem.html
• Machine Bias There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing
• Pedreshi, Dino; Ruggieri, Salvatore; Turini, Franco (2008). "Discrimination-aware data mining": 560. doi:10.1145/1401890.1401959.
• Identifying Significant Predictive Bias in Classifiers https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.08292.pdf
• Dwork, Cynthia; Hardt, Moritz; Pitassi, Toniann; Reingold, Omer; Zemel, Richard (2012). "Fairness through awareness": 214–226. doi:10.1145/2090236.2090255.
• Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807
• Practitioners Guide to COMPAS http://www.northpointeinc.com/files/technical_documents/FieldGuide2_081412.pdf

-- Shift-3 (talk) 13:40, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for this note but it doesn't address what I wrote above... tell you what - how about just drafting content based on those refs above, summarizing them, and posting it on the Machine ethics talk page (Talk:Machine ethics) for review and discussion? Jytdog (talk) 13:51, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

OK. I will do that. Thanks for the explanation. Shift-3 (talk) 13:56, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog, I posted the content on the Machine ethics talk page (Talk:Machine ethics). If you get some time, please give me some feedback. Thanks. --Shift-3 (talk) 14:42, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

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