Fantasy fears about AI are obscuring how we already abuse machine intelligence | Kenan Malik

We blame technology for decisions really made by governments and corporations

Last November, a young African American man, Randal Quran Reid, was pulled over by the state police in Georgia as he was driving into Atlanta. He was arrested under warrants issued by Louisiana police for two cases of theft in New Orleans. Reid had never been to Louisiana, let alone New Orleans. His protestations came to nothing, and he was in jail for six days as his family frantically …

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