Can they use this on politicians even if they have not been convicted yet?
Here’s the algorithm:
White male? Low risk to reoffend!
Everyone else? Maximum risk of repeat violent crimes!
It’s always the question what is optimized for. We had the public discourse in the west destroyed by so called algorithms (it was billionaires hiding behind algorithms). They just did not have the same incentives as the rest of humanity.
Same here, high recidivicism could be optimal for shareholder value and such.
They will commit future crimes when an opportunity presents itself.
Done and done, no AI tokens needed. Thank you
ETA from article
In one case reported by ProPublica, a blind and wheelchair bound 70-year-old was determined to be a “moderate risk” of reoffending despite having a clean disciplinary record
That will be one million dollars, please beep boop
They’ve managed to turn »we think you might be dangerous« into a number on a screen, which apparently makes it science. And when that number ruins someone’s chances of rehabilitation, everyone gets to shrug and blame the software. What a convenient little invention.
“Death panels” was always projection.
“The system said so.”
“We put this into the magic computer box so that we can optimize
racismplacement of incarcerated individuals.”
If there was a way to change some parameters so the AI does not reinforce racist biases in society.
We tried nothing and all out of options. “The AI said so”
At this point, why do they care about predicting crime? Can’t they just say “everyone is guilty, unless they are
friendsin business relationship with us.”Because we know what predicts crime. Wealth inequality, unemployment and job insecurity, bad education, healthcare and especially mental health, segregation, that kind of thing. But by painting over it with AI with the right training data it can be blamed on personal responsibility and nothing to do with societal structural issues, so certain rich folks kan keep getting more rich.
“it can be blamed on personal responsibility” so, this equals to “magic box says you are a bad person”, at which point the magic box could just be a single “are we in business relationship with this person, yes or no?” decision. This was my point. You don’t need complicated machinery if you know what results you want out of it.
In the past the magic box was called God, or nation or clan, now it is called AI. There’s always a puppeteer behind the box, so why bother actually wasting resources on the internals of the box.
Because these people want to avoid an “are we the baddies” moment, so a nice elaborate magic box full of plausible deniability is prefered. Everybody wants to be the hero in their own story and the fancier the story the better.
sadly , that’s a plausible explanation
That’s it! I’m gonna buy some of that american prison stock on questrade and start ratting out my neighbours for fun and profit! /s
Phillip K. Dick was so prophetic that he had to drowned himself in drugs to keep from seeing more horrors.
Yeah I’m just waiting for Palmer Eldritch to return, fully transformed, from the far reaches of the cosmos.
It “proves” itself too. Your algo puts them in solitary, and they don’t commit any crimes. Proof it works! /s
These tech bros , corrupt politicians, CEOs and shareholders need to be rounded up and thrown in these prisons because they never stop committing crimes
Wasn’t there a good short story about this turned into a worse movie?
There’s also an anime with a rather similar premise
Just an excuse to further persecute prisoners without accountability. “Sorry it was a technical fault.”
Ahhh… the office of precrime!
Really? Did you use it on Mango Mussolini?
