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Re:AI predicts crime a week in advance with 90 per cent accu... by motohagiography on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:11PM (#31963356)
A.I. should not be used for law enforcement because it just creates an infinite pretext for whatever they want to do that would otherwise require probable cause, reasonable suspicion, presenting a case to a prosecutor or a judge, and all the other inconvieniences your inalieable rights create for them.

Law enforcement use cases for machine learning are nothing more than a laundering of accountability for individual decisions. The whole notion of algorithms being somehow autonomous is the most pernicious and magically anthropomorphic falsehood supposedly smart people believe, imo. I did a privacy impact assessment many years ago for a government agency who planned to outsource their benefits fraud detection to an "AI" as a service, and the service just happen to be run by a credit bureau company, effectively giving complete benefits and other personal information "for analysis" to a literal scumbag consumer credit reporting company. The project managers were trying to convince me and everyone else that somehow this data would not get re-used and integrated into the credit agencies other data sets and resold among the others - because "they're using AI, nobody there is going to see this data."

I think similar law enforcement use cases for "AI" are just as magically stupid.

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