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Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Midnight@slrpnk.net to c/collapse@slrpnk.net

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[–] illi@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Did they not see the movie?

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago

They probably saw it and learned the wrong lesson.

"We can pull off manipulating precrime to oppress dissent as long as we kept Tom Cruise out!"

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Billionaires and politicians watch and read these stories from the perspective of the antagonist. "Look at the power they are able to wield!"

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What could go wrong?

[–] bazus1@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe the person in charge of the program (let's call it the Pre-Crime program), is suddenly tagged as the next person to do a crime!! Suddenly he has to get out of the PreCrime facility in Buenos Aires as quickly and quietly as possible. He quickly finds the programmer that designed the PreCrime AI system and learns that the three AI units don't always agree, and the dissenting AI creates a minority report that is hidden from the records by default.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That would make a kick ass movie. We should get a scientologist to play the main character.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I've got great news for you!

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is literally the plot to Minority Report.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except those milk witches could actually see the future, and it was still a dystopian idea. This is just going to be a bunch of made-up bullshit.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You didn't watch the movie good. The whole point was that they weren't 100 percent accurate and things were not only wrong but could also be manipulated. So also made up bullshit.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They could accurately predict the future. The issue was that they didn't always agree. When they didn't agree the dissenting opinion was filed in a minority report and they'd go with the majority opinion. That was the problem, that they were arresting people when there was more than one possible outcome, lying to the public, and covering it up.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yup you're totally right.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 months ago

This can’t go wrong. There’s no way this could possibly be bad. /s

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've seen and used enough "AI" to know this is a horrible, stupid. ridiculous idea that was pushed by idiots wanting to jump on a hype train.

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

Literally the plot of psycho-pass

[–] TOModera@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I, for one, am glad that AI is no where near able to implement this ability. That said, I'd be worried if they said they implemented it and used it as a way to target political enemies.

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’ll just make a script that randomly generates a number and that’s the citizen they haul away.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

That would be great because then it probably wouldn't be accidentally racist or intentionally political.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Will they have sick-sticks too?