Also important to mention that according to labeling theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory), being labeled pre-criminals will have an outsized impact on the life trajectories for these kids. It will come with stigma that they will eventually internalize: "if everyone keeps treating me like a criminal, I guess I am one", leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now you have managed to manufacture a deviant.

A few book recommendations to better understand how predictive risk algorithms further victimize the vulnerable:

- Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/638496ba-6ce4-4d31-ab42-34ae18ceef1e

- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f7d95c0d-c131-4b42-9bb4-a6b2d139a762

- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4d181a56-a300-49d2-968e-94647ac3c48d

#bookstodon

This *looks* like a pro-social use of AI, but it's not https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ai-data-children-predict-criminals-fwclzh323

1. Sociology has a pretty good idea of what factors contribute to crime, such as poverty. This "solution" is a surveillance-based intervention into individual rather than structural harms.

2. It fails to notice that predictive risk systems themselves victimize the vulnerable; they amplify bias and create feedback loops.

3. This will necessarily treat children as pre-criminals.

#AI #surveillance #crime #sociology

@skinnylatte also the idea that American policies don’t impact literally every other country

@catsalad hmmm https://octodex.github.com/original/

@catsalad gotta see the Cryptkeeper

@koen_hufkens depends on what they’re doing for verification

@AlSweigart I went to a protest without a phone and realized I couldn’t easily find out when buses come or pay for the fare because everything is so cash averse now

You can see how this is leading down a very dark path, right? You don’t have to be a science fiction author to be able to extrapolate from here.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

Two things:
1. We are creating a two-tiered internet that will see people willing to give up their IDs having one experience while those who can’t, won’t, or don’t have them missing out on those experiences or being outright excluded from whole areas of the web

2. Why you would be willing to give up your ID to web services that have such poor security in a time when identity is being weaponized by state actors is beyond me

@alice this place has everything

@mayintoronto I’m convinced that people have burned out their olfactory sensors by using weapons grade fragrances in everything

One of my sister's cats always looks so mad and it cracks me up.

@annika a middle aged man doing the

@mitsunee

I had a bad boss 15 years ago that I still have nightmares about. If you’re wondering how your shitty behavior impacts the people around you.

I am begging you, if you are a restaurant, you need to have a web presence other than Facebook and Instagram. I don't have those, and therefore can't see anything about your business!