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mhoye May 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

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John May 3, 2023

@mhoye @brunty agree. If they want a solution here is mine: approve all applications ((they are going to approve 85ish% anyway)

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HighlandLawyer

@johnwithbeard @mhoye @brunty Strangely that's mine too.
Even more, open the borders to anyone who has not previously been personally banned, with permission to work (taxed same as citizens) & no recourse to public funds. No visas, just show your passport or claim asylum & get a residence card. Committing a crime (including failing to pay tax) gets you kicked out & banned from returning. 7 years or so residence & fluency in national language, entitled to citizenship.