AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking
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#2It almost sounds like a headline from The Onion, but it's the reality in an increasingly dystopian society. That's really scary.
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#3There's been a memo going around from the higher-ups in Central Services that anyone named 'Harry Buttle' should currently take extreme care, due to minor bugs at Information Retrieval.
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#4Add to that a justice system also mostly automated and you are quickly caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare you can't get out if something goes wrong. Imagine the justice system run like google support. Even if something is clearly wrong you can't clear it up if you are not a famous person with a big Twitter following.
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#5That's absolutely hilarious. But at least it was easily fixed.
But to anyone complaining about how this is dystopian: compare it to human police officers who can racially profile and exhibit their prejudices to disproportionately target segments of the population, and which there is absolutely zero easy fix for, especially when we consider how prevalent unconscious bias is.
At least an automated system can be analyzed for bias and, when it's found, corrected. There's a lot to be said (in terms of justice) for fair and uniform enforcement of a law, assuming of course there is due process for appeals (and that the law is democratically legitimate in the first place).
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#6Add to that a justice system also mostly automated and you are quickly caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare you can't get out if something goes wrong. Imagine the justice system run like google support. Even if something is clearly wrong you can't clear it up if you are not a famous person with a big Twitter following.
On the other hand, a justice system which has most of the menial tasks automated might have more resources to do the important tasks well.
Similarly, Google could have a mostly automated system detecting violations and such, and also a good human support system with power to override the decisions of the former; the two are not really incompatible.
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#7Imagine that she wasnt a famous CEO and lost her job and spent the rest of her life struggling because of a silly mistake.
Re: AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking
#8That's absolutely hilarious. But at least it was easily fixed. But to anyone complaining about how this is dystopian: compare it to human police officers who can racially profile and exhibit their prejudices to disproportionately target segments of the population, and which there is absolutely zero easy fix for, especially when we consider how prevalent unconscious bias is. At least an automated system can be analyze…
compare it to human police officers who can racially profile and exhibit their prejudices
It's already been demonstrated that computers can racially profile people. Everything from consumer cameras that tell the users that people in the pictures don't have their eyes open, but in reality are Asian; to chatbots that turn into Nazi bullhorns.
You can at least train a bad cop to be better. Or fire them. How do you fire an AI into which an authoritarian government poured billions of dollars, years of work, and reams of press releases?
AI was made by people, and because of that will always be flawed. It's only in science fiction books that computers and algorithms are perfect and clean and rational.
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#9Add to that a justice system also mostly automated and you are quickly caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare you can't get out if something goes wrong. Imagine the justice system run like google support. Even if something is clearly wrong you can't clear it up if you are not a famous person with a big Twitter following.
On the other hand, a justice system which has most of the menial tasks automated might have more resources to do the important tasks well. Similarly, Google could have a mostly automated system detecting violations and such, and also a good human support system with power to override the decisions of the former; the two are not really incompatible.
I know an Android dev who had his Play account shut down for an unjustified reason. It took him a very long time to reactivate it. Especially the little guy doesn't get much attention from humans. That was a few years ago. Maybe it's better now.
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#10That's absolutely hilarious. But at least it was easily fixed. But to anyone complaining about how this is dystopian: compare it to human police officers who can racially profile and exhibit their prejudices to disproportionately target segments of the population, and which there is absolutely zero easy fix for, especially when we consider how prevalent unconscious bias is. At least an automated system can be analyze…
Police officers are not quite as pervasive as AIs powered by surveillance cameras.