The police don’t need a computer to suspect you. They already suspect you.
They need a computer to blame the mistake on.
They used to blame the Drug Dog but this is better.
Correction: it’s a fairly open secret that they very often train drug dogs to “alert” on a subtle command from the handler.
Well that’s my fun-fact for the day 🫠
Exactly what AI is really here for–a supposedly all-knowing machine to lay the blame upon for every mistake or misstep or even unlawful/illegal action taken by authorities. It’s an infinite-plausible-deniability machine.
“Whoops! Looks like our computer mistook you for a criminal! No worries, we’ll eventually let you go after having thoroughly terrorized you and threatened your life. Just be more careful next time…”
Constitutional rights be damned to a state that will kill to maintain its ability to violate them
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“He used his turn signals while there was no other car in sight”
Hmmm what about making suspicious facial expressions in view of the mandatory driver-facing camera?
$5 says it eventually turns out the AI, trained on historical police behaviour, flags cars as suspicious more often if the driver’s black.
You don’t have to tell it anything about the driver, it’ll guess based on the car’s location, make, model, colour and age. AI is really great at spotting patterns, even when you try to stop it.
