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1. The research fairy (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2018 16:36:31 UTC The research fairy

   This is the sort of problem that the future of AI poses to humanity; not any sort of hyper-intelligent singularity sci-fi thing

   http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/terrifying-how-a-single-line-of-computer-code-put-thousands-of-innocent-turks-in-jail-1.4495021

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2018 01:32:01 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @bgcarlisle @grainloom While that is all true, this article isn't a particularly good example of anything but a paranoid government with a loose relationship with evidence.
     
     Sure, an AI might encode prejudice, bad practices and flimsy thought processes, and be externalized and pointed at to say "look, this is what the Machine tells us", but that really didn't happen here. That "one line of code" wasn't even government code, it was a smoke screen that the app designers threw into other software to fool the government into throwing too wide a net.
     
     Not that arresting people because they made a phone call to a business whose owner knows someone who shares a Wifi connection with someone who downloaded a messaging app is in any way defensible, even if the did use that app to talk to someone with wrongthink.