"AI can tell you that this person has a problem, but AI is not going to tell you what that problem is. What we have is AI identifying someone who ACC can exit."

#WarrenForster, ACC claimant advocate, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579083/acc-s-use-of-ai-to-help-decide-who-gets-help-shocks-advocate

This is the kind of "AI" harm we need to worry about. Not sci fi fantasies about word-guessing models becoming self-aware and taking over.

#MOLE #AI #ACC

ACC's use of AI to help decide who gets help shocks advocate

"It's all about 'how can we ramp up exits, how can we get more people coming off the scheme," says an ACC advocate

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@strypey the candle here is the use of quota, not the use of AI

@worik
> the candle here is the use of quota, not the use of AI

I take your point, but in this case (and many others) the one is clearly driven by the other. It's technocracy on generative steroids. Exactly the kind of thing Adam Curtis focused on in one of his best TV series; The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom (2007).

Here's the full series as one 3 hour video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbdRAIpH_I4

#documentary #AdamCurtis #TheTrap #technocracy

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)

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