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A.I. should not be used for law enforcement because it just creates an infinite pretext for whatever they want to do that would otherwise require probable cause
by motohagiography 4y ago
A.I. should not be used for law enforcement because it just creates an infinite pretext for whatever they want to do that would otherwise require probable cause, reasonable suspicion, presenting a case to a prosecutor or a judge, and all the other inconvieniences your inalieable rights create for them.
Law enforcement use cases for machine learning are nothing more than a laundering of accountability for individual decisions. The whole notion of algorithms being somehow autonomous is the most pernicious and magically anthropomorphic falsehood supposedly smart people believe, imo. I did a privacy impact assessment many years ago for a government agency who planned to outsource their benefits fraud detection to an "AI" as a service, and the service just happen to be run by a credit bureau company, effectively giving complete benefits and other personal information "for analysis" to a literal scumbag consumer credit reporting company. The project managers were trying to convince me and everyone else that somehow this data would not get re-used and integrated into the credit agencies other data sets and resold among the others - because "they're using AI, nobody there is going to see this data."
I think similar law enforcement use cases for "AI" are just as magically stupid.