有時候技術也是威脅英語美文

Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated that, when shown pictures of one gay man, and one straight man, the algorithm could attribute their sexuality correctly 81% of the time.

斯坦福大學的研究表明，在被出示給一張同性戀之人的照片和一張異性戀之人的照片時，算法在81%的時間中可以正確地確定他們的性取向。

Humans managed only 61%.

人類經過努力才能達到61%。

In countries where homosexuality is a crime, software which promises to infer sexuality from a face is an alarming prospect.

在同性戀是一種犯罪的國家中，能從臉部斷定性取向的軟件是一種令人擔憂的前景。

Less violent forms of discrimination could also become common.

不那麼暴力的歧視形式也可能變得很常見。

Employers can already act on their prejudices to deny people a job.

僱主早就能夠根據自己的偏見拒絕給人們一份工作。

But facial recognition could make such bias routine, enabling firms to filter all job applications for ethnicity and signs of intelligence and sexuality.

但是，臉部識別可能讓這類偏見司空見慣，它能讓公司為了種族特點以及智力和性別信號而去過濾所有的求職申請。

Nightclubs and sports grounds may face pressure to protect people by scanning entrants’ faces for the threat of violence—even though, owing to the nature of machine-learning, all facial-recognition systems inevitably deal in probabilities.

夜總會和運動場可能面對為了暴力威脅而通過掃描入場者臉部的方式來保護人們的壓力——鑑於機器學習的性質，所有的'臉部識別系統都不可避免地是在各種可能性中轉來轉去。

Moreover, such systems may be biased against those who do not have white skin, since algorithms trained on data sets of mostly white faces do not work well with different ethnicities.

再者，由於接受的大多是白人臉部的數據集培訓的算法不能很好地處理不同的種族特點，這類系統可能沾染上對沒有白色皮膚的人的偏見。

Such biases have cropped up in automated assessments used to inform courts’ decisions about bail and sentencing.

這類偏見已經在用來公示法庭有關假釋和判決的決定的自動評估中露出了苗頭。

Eventually, continuous facial recording and gadgets that paint computerised data onto the real world might change the texture of social interactions.

最後，持續不斷的臉部記錄行為以及能把經過計算機處理的數據投射到現實世界的各種小工具可能改變社會交往的結構。

Dissembling helps grease the wheels of daily life.

掩飾有助於日常生活的潤滑。

If your partner can spot every suppressed yawn, and your boss every grimace of irritation, marriages and working relationships will be more truthful, but less harmonious.

如果伴侶能夠發現每一個被強壓下去的哈欠，如果老闆能夠發現每一個帶着不滿的苦相，婚姻和工作關係將會更加誠實，但是，卻少了一些和諧。