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While it's not ideal to model real life policies on television, the show Person of Interest actually covers a situation very similar to this. Instead of humans
by anonred 10y ago
While it's not ideal to model real life policies on television, the show Person of Interest actually covers a situation very similar to this. Instead of humans interacting directly with the information and system, the protagonist designs a black-box artificial intelligence (called The Machine) that utilizes NSA-provided feeds to classify persons as national security threats. The only information that law enforcement and the government receive is the social security number of the "person of interest."
By being a closed system, this kind of setup circumvents a lot of privacy issues. The AI acts as a neutral 3rd party (provided that the training set is neutral) in classifying individuals and actions. In addition, law enforcement retains full autonomy in deciding if and how to act on the information provided.
- rhizome 10y agoIn your example it's art imitating life, and there is indeed a neutrality problem: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
- throwaway049 10y agoIn that show, law enforcement get the full data. The reason the story protagonist only gets SSNs is that this is the only data that can be siphoned out of the system to him undetected, which is necessary as he is using the data without the approval of the NSA.
- throwanem 10y agoNot so. The major plot arc of the last three seasons originates in the fact that law enforcement only gets SSNs too, and finds this insufficient.