AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
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Re: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
#2Discussion (730 points, 2 days ago, 379 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356968
Re: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
#3Really, it's more about the police not doing their job. Face recognition pointed her out, the police saw she had a rap sheet, and therefore they didn't check further.
She apparently could not afford a lawyer, who would have pointed out that she was provably at home (transactions, etc.) at the time the crime was committed in another state.
Really it's not specifically AIs fault, though it made the error easier.
Re: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
#4Really, it's more about the police not doing their job. Face recognition pointed her out, the police saw she had a rap sheet, and therefore they didn't check further. She apparently could not afford a lawyer, who would have pointed out that she was provably at home (transactions, etc.) at the time the crime was committed in another state. Really it's not specifically AIs fault, though it made the error easier.
Give them a hammer and everything becomes a nail
Re: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
#5Really, it's more about the police not doing their job. Face recognition pointed her out, the police saw she had a rap sheet, and therefore they didn't check further. She apparently could not afford a lawyer, who would have pointed out that she was provably at home (transactions, etc.) at the time the crime was committed in another state. Really it's not specifically AIs fault, though it made the error easier.
I still wouldn't let AI off the hook here. Every link in the chain has to be accountable for fuckups. You don't get to pass it along to the supposed "human in the loop" when you fail spectacularly. That's how we end up with shitty "almost works" AI.
Re: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
#6Really, it's more about the police not doing their job. Face recognition pointed her out, the police saw she had a rap sheet, and therefore they didn't check further. She apparently could not afford a lawyer, who would have pointed out that she was provably at home (transactions, etc.) at the time the crime was committed in another state. Really it's not specifically AIs fault, though it made the error easier.
Quite; AI contributed to a (criminally?) inept and negligent "justice" system ruining an innocent woman's life.
The AI was akin to an unreliable eye-witness in this case, although people's trust in the AI's judgement may have been higher than a human eyewitness?
Re: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
#7Really, it's more about the police not doing their job. Face recognition pointed her out, the police saw she had a rap sheet, and therefore they didn't check further. She apparently could not afford a lawyer, who would have pointed out that she was provably at home (transactions, etc.) at the time the crime was committed in another state. Really it's not specifically AIs fault, though it made the error easier.
Give them a hammer and everything becomes a nail
There's no better comparison to chimps with a gun than cops with technology.
Re: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
#8AI is a tool. It is humans who abdicate their responsibility (and thinking).
Re: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
#9Really, it's more about the police not doing their job. Face recognition pointed her out, the police saw she had a rap sheet, and therefore they didn't check further. She apparently could not afford a lawyer, who would have pointed out that she was provably at home (transactions, etc.) at the time the crime was committed in another state. Really it's not specifically AIs fault, though it made the error easier.
Quite; AI contributed to a (criminally?) inept and negligent "justice" system ruining an innocent woman's life. The AI was akin to an unreliable eye-witness in this case, although people's trust in the AI's judgement may have been higher than a human eyewitness?
Absolutely, this is what is going to happen when the average person gets to use AI- "well, the computer says..."
Re: AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined
#10Really, it's more about the police not doing their job. Face recognition pointed her out, the police saw she had a rap sheet, and therefore they didn't check further. She apparently could not afford a lawyer, who would have pointed out that she was provably at home (transactions, etc.) at the time the crime was committed in another state. Really it's not specifically AIs fault, though it made the error easier.
I still wouldn't let AI off the hook here. Every link in the chain has to be accountable for fuckups. You don't get to pass it along to the supposed "human in the loop" when you fail spectacularly. That's how we end up with shitty "almost works" AI.
Sure, the AI contributed, but it was far less responsible overall than the humans in this case.
Don't let the AI system off the hook by all means, but by focusing on it to this extent, the narrative ignores (deliberately?) the hugely negligent actions of the police et al involved.