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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by oftenwrong on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:27PM (#26229250)
Is there a better option? This is software that has to 100% work in order to be trusted. If the software cannot be trusted, additional process has to fill in to verify the decisions the software is making. There's no way to deliver a good solution cheaply.
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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by TedDoesntTalk on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:45PM (#26229535)
All software has bugs. This is the mantra we are taught and for a good reason.

The answer is human oversight.

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