Paris MarxWhen we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.
Nicole ParsonsWorry more about AI becoming part of business models of funded malign influence campaigns
Like the GOP lies that let 1.18 million Americans die of preventable disease
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/12/covid-deaths-anti-vaccine-republican-voters/672575/
Imagine if Texas's Dan Patrick's donors had been able to buy an AI-assisted covid disinfo campaign, instead of relying on Fox News?
It wouldn't have just been granny targeted for callous & neglectful social murder. It would have been POC, non-Christians, & immigrants too
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents
Squiggle@Npars01 @parismarx We are looking at Augmented Idiocy.
The failing public education leaves is building. At least here in Australia basic literacy, numeracy and critical thinking is on the decline.
The failing public education leaves is building. At least here in Australia basic literacy, numeracy and critical thinking is on the decline.
The public education system is not failing.
It's being deliberately disrupted and defunded, by billionaires.
They're attempting to use vouchers & charter schools to get public funding for segregated private schools.
They want to convert every publicly funded system into systems of public corruption.
Patronage & pork for their billionaire donors is all the GOP do.
https://jacobin.com/2018/06/public-education-privatization-koch-brothers-teachers
https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-dream-defunding-public-schools-moves-one-step-closer-1834445
