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If you want current examples then look no further than the damage done by health insurance companies.

If "AI" were allowed to objectively run everything, it would kick Musk out of Xitter and Tesla for running them into the ground.

5/ And in Michigan, a new automated system for detecting fraud in unemployment insurance claims identified fivefold more fraud compared to the older system—causing some 40,000 people to be wrongly accused of unemployment insurance fraud.

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Damn Andrew you beat me to it

How are Elon's new systems going to work in the next admin that isn't Trump? How do we know AI won't be compromised, and what is the environmental impact of AI on federal systems?

How do we know he isn't planting some Trojan horse that can shut down or freeze the systems at whim?

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Does anyone still think that they have the best interests of the country in mind here? AI, really?? It's a takeover. I expect that there's also an external team that is seeing/modifying this code as well. These guys are the young expendable meat.

We have already seen what can happen in Australia, with our ‘robodebt’ scandal

Yes, absolutely. Some behavior that is flagged as suspicious by these programs is just how lower income people tend to have different patterns of usage vs those with higher incomes - which is why equity analysis is important! Thread here: bsky.app/profile/jess...