Here’s the algorithm:
White male? Low risk to reoffend!
Everyone else? Maximum risk of repeat violent crimes!
Depends on who is responsible for the training input data. Elon’s Grock Mecha-Hitler? Very likely it would do exactly as you suggest.
Does no one there remember Minority Report?
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.
Can they use this on politicians even if they have not been convicted yet?
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.
Ahhh… the office of precrime!
It’s an orange ball! PRISON RIOT!
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.
Let’s be honest we’re not going for rehabilitation here, American prisons are designed for two things: slavery and cruelty.
“The system said so.”
Why is Psycho-Pass turning into reality? I hate this timeline
Psycho-Pass mentioned!
I thought of
Total Recallfirst, but yeah Psycho-Pass fits here as wellEdit: wrong sci-fi. Minority Report
“Death panels” was always projection.
I just saw the movie “Brazil” and boy, that “everyone gets to shrug and blame the software.” just sent chills down my back.
Replace torment nexus with minority report
Except in minority report the system was accurate over 50% of the time.
This is like one step away from Minority Report… Does no one see the parallels? Did no one understand the moral of the story?
Everyone sees it. Those in power want it.
“Moral”… what is that, exactly? All my years of business education has taught me that morals are antithetical to profits, thus they have no use to modern society.
No, but when Donald Trump see the word Minor, he get aroused.
Yeah we have read it, we’re working on it would be the standard answer
“Move fast and break things”. And by “things” they also mean society.
Divide and conquer at home
Lots of us understood. No one in power considers it a bad thing.
Living the American dream
Phillip K. Dick was so prophetic that he had to drowned himself in drugs to keep from seeing more horrors.
Yeah I’m just waiting for Palmer Eldritch to return, fully transformed, from the far reaches of the cosmos.
On a similar note, if Hunter S Thompson was still alive he would have killed himself all over again
At least he got to be shot out of a cannon.
Better times back then,
We can be sure it is ramping up racist outcomes because it is trained on human input.
Yay! More thought crime!!
At this point, why do they care about predicting crime? Can’t they just say “everyone is guilty, unless they are
friendsin business relationship with us.”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.
“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.
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.
sadly , that’s a plausible explanation
