The glitch wasn't the reason people went to prison. It was incompetence, perverse outcome-based executive incentives, plain corruption and baseless hubris. The

The glitch wasn't the reason people went to prison. It was incompetence, perverse outcome-based executive incentives, plain corruption and baseless hubris. The problem that this unearthed was that evidence of crimes committed through information systems can be obscenely complex and therefore obscenely expensive to defend against. "Computer says guilty" shouldn't be enough, but a defence would take months of debugging. Not something somebody on a £20k salary could ever afford. But that's what happend. Hubris that Fujitsu's system was infallible. Targets and bonuses that stopped management asking uncomfortable questions. Layers of incompetence meaning people weren't asking the right questions, missing the correct burden of proof in the legal process. And all this over an accounting system that can be forensically picked apart. Just imagine how bad it'll be when it's a black-box AI.