Does no one there remember Minority Report?
Here’s the algorithm:
White male? Low risk to reoffend!
Everyone else? Maximum risk of repeat violent crimes!
Depends on who is responsible for the training input data. Elon’s Grock Mecha-Hitler? Very likely it would do exactly as you suggest.
Can they use this on politicians even if they have not been convicted yet?
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
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
Automated Racist Hetero Fascism fucking sucks.
Don’t be cisphobic, please.
People downvote you. Absolutely amazing how people are against the most basic things and instead make the exact same anti-other-group shit.
So I’m hetero and, by American measure, of a not hated racial background. But suppose I’ve liked some absolutely amazing girls who are, unfortunately, not hetero (or I’m not cool enough to transcend that barrier), and the guy who’ve introduced me to the concept of aerodynamics (when I was a kid) using frisbees as example was an African student, but I have some ideas that might be called fascist here, so can we please be more nuanced with what sucks?
I mean, OK, I’m not automated, but how do you know.
but I have some ideas that might be called fascist here
That’s a hell of a thing to just gloss over when asking for more nuance, especially these days.
IRL what of my ideas can be called fascist is usually expressed by leftists, mostly anarchists. Systems of laws and influences with time become too complex for a society to not be constrained with them, and also dominated by negative selection of authority figures, which means you need violence to allow them to evolve further. I don’t mean mass executions and dictatorships, just things like copyright and patents being bad, but not always, things like freedom of speech being good, but not always, and in general no absolutes being true.
At the same time anarchist and leftist arguments don’t seem to explain those parts and seem to keep them as pure emotion, while fascism has explanations (by its own rules, of course).
Replace torment nexus with minority report
Except in minority report the system was accurate over 50% of the time.
There’s a dystopian term for that already. It’s called PreCrime.
“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”
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.
I just saw the movie “Brazil” and boy, that “everyone gets to shrug and blame the software.” just sent chills down my back.
“Death panels” was always projection.
Why is Psycho-Pass turning into reality? I hate this timeline
That was the first sci-fi I thought of when I read this too
Psycho-Pass mentioned!
I thought of
Total Recallfirst, but yeah Psycho-Pass fits here as wellEdit: wrong sci-fi. Minority Report
Let’s be honest we’re not going for rehabilitation here, American prisons are designed for two things: slavery and cruelty.
“The system said so.”
This is like one step away from Minority Report… Does no one see the parallels? Did no one understand the moral of the story?
Everyone sees it. Those in power want it.
No, but when Donald Trump see the word Minor, he get aroused.
In the 90s he would have been, not sure what the situation is down there. In 2016 it allegedly still worked.
“Moral”… what is that, exactly? All my years of business education has taught me that morals are antithetical to profits, thus they have no use to modern society.
Yeah we have read it, we’re working on it would be the standard answer
“Move fast and break things”. And by “things” they also mean society.
Divide and conquer at home
Lots of us understood. No one in power considers it a bad thing.
But if it were my company, we would implement the terrible bad evil thing correctly. I’m smarter than the villain of the book, obviously.
These tech bros , corrupt politicians, CEOs and shareholders need to be rounded up and thrown in these prisons because they never stop committing crimes
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
It “proves” itself too. Your algo puts them in solitary, and they don’t commit any crimes. Proof it works! /s
