Flower comments on Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes: It's going to "optimize placement of incarcerated individuals."

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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Because we know what predicts crime. Wealth inequality, unemployment and job insecurity, bad education, healthcare and especially mental health, segregation, that kind of thing. But by painting over it with AI with the right training data it can be blamed on personal responsibility and nothing to do with societal structural issues, so certain rich folks kan keep getting more rich.

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[–] mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

"it can be blamed on personal responsibility" so, this equals to "magic box says you are a bad person", at which point the magic box could just be a single "are we in business relationship with this person, yes or no?" decision. This was my point. You don't need complicated machinery if you know what results you want out of it.

In the past the magic box was called God, or nation or clan, now it is called AI. There's always a puppeteer behind the box, so why bother actually wasting resources on the internals of the box.

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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Because these people want to avoid an "are we the baddies" moment, so a nice elaborate magic box full of plausible deniability is prefered. Everybody wants to be the hero in their own story and the fancier the story the better.

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[–] mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

sadly , that's a plausible explanation

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