D333 Pre-Assessment Ethic In Technology. Questions And Answers, Rated A+

A project team at an animal welfare agency is using predictive analytics to help take animals out of abusive environments. The algorithm the team designed has a false positive rate that is higher than zero, which means that some animals could be removed erroneously if the algorithm's recommendations are followed. The project owner understands that pets may wrongfully be removed from loving healthy homes but decides to use the algorithm anyway because it will happen only a small percentage of the time. Which ethical theory does this represent? {Ans: Consequentialism}A company provides machine learning software that helps judges make decisions in parole hearings by assigning each person up for parole a score estimating the probability that they will commit another crime if paroled. The model was trained on the profiles of incarcerated people and information on whether they were sent back to prison after release. Race was not a variable that was included in the training data. However, it was uncovered that the model gave higher probabilities to members of certain races. It was found that a proxy variable was inadvertently included. Which data point in the incarcerated peoples' profiles was likely the variable understood by the machine learning