May Likes Toronto1d ago

"Canada rejected her permanent residence application. Her job duties were made up — by Immigration’s AI reviewer"

Added wiring and assembling control to expected job duties... She's a doctoral researcher in the immunology of aging.

I'm really hoping that this sets a legal precedence for the standard of the duty of care that the government is held to when using technology that does not care for reality.

https://www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?t=2a2f2922-489d-47cb-b5ff-36b188263d9a

#cdnpoli

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Show threadCarolyn1d ago
@mayintoronto It is terrifying that a government would be using AI.
Show threadOutOfSpace - 不割席1d ago
@CStamp @mayintoronto I think it depend for what they are using what kind of AI.
Show threadCarolyn
@OutOfSpace @mayintoronto I can't think of a use that doesn't come with a lot of risk and a lot of frustration for users and people who need a person to talk to.
Mar 25 at 9:11pmWeb
Show threadOutOfSpace - 不割席1d ago
@CStamp @mayintoronto me neither, but I am not an adminiatration person. there might be good cases, who knows. I think we have to treat the current AI as what it is: An improved search engine, although a very expensive one in energy consumption. All the rest is just marketing.
Show threadCarolyn1d ago
@OutOfSpace @mayintoronto It's not even that. It give errors, so you don't know if you should believe the search.
Show threadOutOfSpace - 不割席1d ago
@CStamp @mayintoronto I agree, you have to be critical. But you have to critical with Google and other search engines or any source of information too. If a moron uses AI it's a bad thing. But a moron itself is a bad thing. Given the context you were thinking of and referring to in your first post: AI should not be used in that context.
Show threadCarolyn1d ago
@OutOfSpace @mayintoronto It should also not replace human judgement or human customer support.
Show threadMisuse Case17h ago
@CStamp @OutOfSpace @mayintoronto They are using AI to speed up a pro forma rejection of anyone from a population they deem as “surplus” or “unimportant.”
Show threadOutOfSpace - 不割席15h ago
@MisuseCase @CStamp @mayintoronto Yeah, unaccaptable. with or without AI.
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️17h ago

@OutOfSpace

This defense sounds exactly like what an AI-driven test account said to me last year, and the avatar was similar.

@CStamp @mayintoronto

Show threadD16h ago
@SnowyCA @CStamp @mayintoronto It's also a stupid defense of AI. It is a shittier search engine. Far, far shittier in every regard.
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️16h ago

@driusan 💯 in agreement!

@mayintoronto @CStamp

Show threadD16h ago
@SnowyCA @mayintoronto @CStamp "It's like a search engine except it doesn't give you any results, doesn't have any way to find the sources, is non-repeatable, makes things up, and uses more energy."
Show threadBunNICKula🇨🇦15h ago

@driusan @mayintoronto @SnowyCA @CStamp

Without being trite, the use of computers to assist in human decision making and its unintended but still erroneous and deadly consequences is highlighted in this link.
As the professor says, long read. Sobering.

https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116294189557576927

Emeritus Prof Christopher May (@[email protected])

The Iranian children killed in the airstrike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school early on in the US/Israeli assault on Iran were not as the popular trope increasingly has it 'killed by AI' but rather were killed by years & years of lazy & inaccurate bureaucracy; hiding behind AI allows the real culprit(s) to enjoy impunity from an atrocity & likely war crime. Kevin Baker's detailed exploration of what was behind the airstrike is a long read but worth it! #iran https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

zirkus
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️15h ago

@intothewestaway @driusan @mayintoronto @CStamp

That's an excellent example