Horrified by Horizon? Then get ready to be totally appalled by AI

As the Post Office debacle has amply demonstrated, putting blind faith into a new form of technology can be perilous

It doesn’t take much imagination to describe what happens when a large corporation, over 16 long years, is allowed vindictively to prosecute 900 subpostmasters for theft, false accounting and fraud, when shortfalls at their branches were in fact due to bugs in the accounting software imposed on them by that corporation, as “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in …

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