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If you consider people openly planning crimes to be decent evidence for future crimes (and the US legislative and court system certainly does) the US government
by darby_nine 2y ago
If you consider people openly planning crimes to be decent evidence for future crimes (and the US legislative and court system certainly does) the US government has been doing this since before Minority Report was released on film. Hell, isn't this essentially what Palantir does? Sure maybe it's not referred to as "AI" but it's certainly a form of partially-automated mass-surveillance with the intent of empowering state agencies to make arrests.
- tommiegannert 2y ago> Hell, isn't this essentially what Palantir does? Palantir is (was, 10 years ago, when I interviewed for them) a graph database with a UI that allowed easy viewing of large datasets. Then they sold consulting hours to build custom plugins. I like graph databases, but to paint Palantir as a pre-crime system is a bit over the top. It would be a great tool to e.g. find and model relationships between Bitcoin addresses. Happy to receive an update on that, but I suspect this reputation that they're doing some magic data processing is probably great for sales, so unlikely to happen.
- darby_nine 2y ago> I like graph databases, but to paint Palantir as a pre-crime system is a bit over the top. Why? Is that not how the software is used?