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These are not a real problem. The bigger threat is automated facial recognition throwing false positives and having swat teams mow down innocent people because a computer said they were criminals.



Who needs to mow them down? Getting denied a credit card, product returns, plane tickets or FAANG accounts will be bad enough, but permitted because “nobody has a reasonable expectation of those”.


Don't worry, automated swat teams will eliminate the need to mow down, merely resulting in arrests


You don't even need false positives. Just identifying more people who have warrants out will cause innocent people to die. Every time an AI gets a hit and calls the police the public is at risk. The police are simply not professional enough to be expected to rush into a situation where they have no knowledge other than there's someone there they want to arrest and not have an unacceptably high chance of leaving death and destruction in their wake. Calling the cops more because we have AI doing it will result in more death regardless of the accuracy of the AI. If cops could be trusted to show restraint swatting wouldn't be a thing.




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