A dangerous fallacy is that killer robots will take the appearance of monstrous, mechanical machines. Instead, killer robots have (among many other disguises) taken the appearance of web forms automatically determining if people are eligible for financial assistance.
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Killer robots hiding in plain sight
"The result is an ironic inversion of values: while the trading of data for services promises ease, transparency, and freedom from overly bureaucratic procedures, navigating our lives has become harder and more opaque – and discrimination more difficult to contest."
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@anabrandusescu.bsky.social: This article haunts me: “People have to file freedom of information requests just to learn an algorithm set the length of their prison sentence. The more public institutions rely on tech companies, the more we are losing democratic control over their processes and decisions.”
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