Replace torment nexus with minority report

They’ve managed to turn »we think you might be dangerous« into a number on a screen, which apparently makes it science. And when that number ruins someone’s chances of rehabilitation, everyone gets to shrug and blame the software. What a convenient little invention.

This is like one step away from Minority Report... Does no one see the parallels? Did no one understand the moral of the story?

We can be sure it is ramping up racist outcomes because it is trained on human input.

Phillip K. Dick was so prophetic that he had to drowned himself in drugs to keep from seeing more horrors.

At this point, why do they care about predicting crime? Can't they just say "everyone is guilty, unless they are friends in business relationship with us."

"We put this into the magic computer box so that we can optimize racism placement of incarcerated individuals."

Just an excuse to further persecute prisoners without accountability. "Sorry it was a technical fault."

Ahhh... the office of precrime!

This is one of those self-fulfilling prophecies. If that system doesn't declare all inmates as "high risk to murder the people that implemented this system," it's obviously broken.

Wasn’t there a good short story about this turned into a worse movie?

There's a dystopian term for that already. It's called PreCrime.

It "proves" itself too. Your algo puts them in solitary, and they don't commit any crimes. Proof it works! /s

Yay! More thought crime!!

These tech bros , corrupt politicians, CEOs and shareholders need to be rounded up and thrown in these prisons because they never stop committing crimes

Does no one there remember Minority Report?

They will commit future crimes when an opportunity presents itself.

Done and done, no AI tokens needed. Thank you

ETA from article

In one case reported by ProPublica, a blind and wheelchair bound 70-year-old was determined to be a “moderate risk” of reoffending despite having a clean disciplinary record

That will be one million dollars, please beep boop

Living the American dream

Automated Racist Hetero Fascism fucking sucks.

It's an orange ball! PRISON RIOT!

That's it! I'm gonna buy some of that american prison stock on questrade and start ratting out my neighbours for fun and profit! /s

Really? Did you use it on Mango Mussolini?

Can they use this on politicians even if they have not been convicted yet?

As a prisoner I would do everything I could to become absolutely unpredictable.

from walking backwards in the lot, to doing cartwheels in my cell.

Here's the algorithm:

White male? Low risk to reoffend!

Everyone else? Maximum risk of repeat violent crimes!

It's always the question what is optimized for. We had the public discourse in the west destroyed by so called algorithms (it was billionaires hiding behind algorithms). They just did not have the same incentives as the rest of humanity.

Same here, high recidivicism could be optimal for shareholder value and such.

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