Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
“I was just following orders” wasn’t acceptable, and “The decision was made by ‘the AI’ [that I paid to train, use, and manage]” won’t be acceptable either ✊
Thank you for posting this. Despicable that this analysis is automated that way, when it’s known that it’s replicating racial biases.
Part of why fascists love AI is because they can say “the AI did it, we don’t control it” whenever it acts as it was programmed to
“I was just following orders” wasn’t acceptable, and “The decision was made by ‘the AI’ [that I paid to train, use, and manage]” won’t be acceptable either ✊
It’s just a new way for big organizations to avoid accountability by claiming it’s just policy and they have no control over it
Kind of the point, I’m sure.
This is just the next gen of IBM and the Holocaust, unfolding for us all in real-time.