Recently a Wharton Professor , Kartik Hosanagar wrote a book " Human's Guide on Machine Intelligence " about how our new day and age has every human on the cusp of. Bill of Rights to protect us from Algorithms. And truthfully this is a marvel idea , although it would be hard to trace those responsible and would ultimately result to a libel and defamation suit.
Professor Hasanagar writes how we allow our lives to be submitted to algorithms making digital decisions for us with examples like: loan approval , dating matches and to where we like to eat and shop. And with the advent of smart phones these algorithms send this information straight to our palms. Many around the world today don't even bat an eye to the process involved and think it now to be natural occurrence. The scary part is this information and the decisions fall into the hands of " Corporate America " who are the creators of Artificial intelligence. Professor Hasanagar says " The danger is power will be concentrated only in a few companies with little transparency.
In other aspects of our life in the 21st century is Judges presiding over criminal sentencing are allowing Artificial Intelligence to make the decisions on what sentences are imposed once given the factors of each case. Arizona , Kentucky , Alaska have already adopted the use of AI in the courtrooms assisting judges to determine the pre-trial release. What has been the judges decision since the beginning of our Justice System is now being partially surrendered to AI. New Jersey has a complete integrated program which is even more intricate in the courts decision which relies on a " Public Assessment Score ".
The down side to this Artificial technology is it eliminates the Bail Bond industry which served as the third party when a defendant had to post a bond to be released. Many cities and towns all over the nation have had Bail Bondsman willing to help secure defendant releases but now they have been removed completely.
Which is a big fear for many working Americans now. Many humans are being given the pink slip because the perpetual employee has shown up who doesn't need breaks , require health insurance or sicks days. Hopefully the artificial intelligence doe not place us into a disgruntled algorithm.
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