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AIs don't incarcerate people. People incarcerate people.
by watermelongunn 5y ago
AIs don't incarcerate people. People incarcerate people.
- Verdex 5y agoYes. But there's something bigger going on. So some asshole walks into the middle of the court room and butchers a chicken. Then he pulls out the liver and tears the thing apart. Finally, he confidently asserts that the defendant is guilty. He uses all sorts of science words like 'sodium gradients' and 'iron content'. Meanwhile, we're all professional haruspices over here and we're all like, no. The best we've been able to do is get chicken livers to correctly identify the number '4' and to generate cat photos. The courts and police (all over the world and deep into history as far as I can tell) have a habit of grabbing pseudo science or even straight up mysticism and using it to assign guilt. So here we are watching the part of compsci that's currently going through its alchemy stage and people are using it for legal decisions. Yeah, technically people are incarcerating people. However, we should at the very least be telling people, "Hey, have you seen that one James Mickens video where he talks about how machine learning should definitely be kept off the internet of hate (aka the internet) AND definitely not used for important decisions. It's both entertaining and educational."
- breckenedge 5y agoLike firearms manufacturers, AI companies bear some responsibility for how their tools are misused.