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 threadGeoff WinklessMay 3, 2023
@mhoye easy way to clear the backlog: anyone not processed through the proper channels within 6 weeks is automatically granted asylum.
Show threadmhoye
@Geoff I'd be a lot more bullish on AI if its primary failure mode was towards basic human decency.
May 4, 2023 at 12:56amWeb