Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights.
The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use “machine-learning algorithms to analyse historical crime data to predict future crimes”. It is also expected to deploy facial recognition software to identify “wanted persons”, patrol social media, and analyse real-time security camera footage to detect suspicious activities.
While the ministry of security has said the new unit will help to “detect potential threats, identify movements of criminal groups or anticipate disturbances”, the Minority Report-esque resolution has sent alarm bells ringing among human rights organisations.
Tech guy here.
This is a tech-flavored smokescreen to avoid responsibility for misapplied law enforcement.
By innate definition, everyone has the potential for criminality, especially those applying and enforcing the law; as a matter of fact, not even the ai is above the law unless that’s somehow changing. We need a lot of things on Earth first, like an IoT consortium for example, but an ai bill of rights in the US or EU should hopefully set a precedent for the rest of the world.
The AI is a pile of applied stastistic models. The humans in charge of training it, testing it and acting on its input have full control and responsibility for anything that comes out of it. Personifying or otherwise separating an AI system from being the will of its controllers is dangerous as it erodes responsibility.
Racist cops have used “I go where the crime is” as an exuse to basically hunt minorities for sport. Do not allow them to say “the AI model said this was efficient” and pretend it is not their own full and knowing bias directing them.
Literally Minority Report.
There’s actually a subtle knock on Scientology that I think even Tom Cruise missed in that film. The drug he’s addicted to that ruins his life is called ‘Clarity.’
I was just about to say that. It’s a great watch, even if anime isn’t your usual thing as well.
Oh god…soon we wont be able to create any more Sci-fi movies out of fear some idiot with too much money and power thinks to use them like “How to…” videos.
The world’s first “anarchist” president, everyone.
“Anarchocapitalist”
And honestly, even that’s bullshit. You can’t be anarchocapitalist and a social conservative.
lol what. I’ve never seen any ancap who isn’t fascist by another name. all capitalists are conservatives.
You, sir/ma’am, are truly the most radical. I’m trembling at your epic levels of socialist fervour. You win, you can move on to a different thread now.
Yeah but a lot of “anarcho” capitalists claim to be just another type of anarchist. This is the point I’m making, which is that they are very much not real anarchists.
Since it’s a shallow ideology with no strong moral principles, it’s not surprising that its adherents hold contradictory viewpoints like social conservatism.
Normal anarchism seems just about as coherent to me, TBH. In both cases they rely on a mythical hard-power vacuum that doesn’t instantly collapse.
Anarchy: yet another term hijacked by fascists and mangled beyond recognition.
It’s just extreme economic liberalism, small/no Government so that corporations can rule over us as warlords. It’s a smokescreen for corporate feudalism.
As far as I can tell, ancaps are a tiny group of economics nerds that don’t see the obvious flaw everyone else does. They legitimately do think we can have a comfortable, livable society where you never have to do anything you don’t agree to, in their specific sense of positive agreement.
Actual fascists go for more convincing canards.
He’s a liberal libertarian! That’s what he’s been saying after consulting his *checks notes* cloned dog.
Would you believe it, all those political enemies and protesters turned out to be future criminals?
How fortunate we developed this system!
