mhoyeMay 3, 2023

The UK government wants programmers to do performative, unpaid labor, so they can leverage tools built entirely on a nonconsensual strip-mining of the public sphere, to find a way to automate the process of treating desperate people as something less deserving than human with tools that will let them launder their racism, classism and hatred.

Don't do this.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/government-hackathon-to-search-for-ways-to-use-ai-to-cut-asylum-backlog

UK government ‘hackathon’ to search for ways to use AI to cut asylum backlog

Three-day quest for innovations to tackle waiting list of 138,052 attacked as ‘wasting time on nonsense ideas that will go nowhere’

The Guardian
Show threadJohnMay 3, 2023
@mhoye @brunty agree. If they want a solution here is mine: approve all applications ((they are going to approve 85ish% anyway)
Show threadmhoye
@johnwithbeard @brunty That's plausibly within the error bars for this class of technology but that is not, of course, what the apparatus of state wants to see.
May 3, 2023 at 3:15pmWeb