Wanted: The ‘perfect babysitter.’ Must pass AI scan for respect and attitude.; The Washington Post, November 23, 2018

Drew Harwell, The Washington Post; Wanted: The ‘perfect babysitter.’ Must pass AI scan for respect and attitude.

"Predictim’s chief and co-founder Sal Parsa said the company, launched last month as part of the University of California at Berkeley’s SkyDeck tech incubator, takes ethical questions about its use of the technology seriously. Parents, he said, should see the ratings as a companion that “may or may not reflect the sitter’s actual attributes.”...

...[T]ech experts say the system raises red flags of its own, including worries that it is preying on parents’ fears to sell personality scans of untested accuracy.

They also question how the systems are being trained and how vulnerable they might be to misunderstanding the blurred meanings of sitters’ social media use. For all but the highest-risk scans, the parents are given only a suggestion of questionable behavior and no specific phrases, links or details to assess on their own."