Comment on Los Angeles is using AI to predict who might become homeless and help before they do
Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 11 months agoColor me skeptical, considering this city specifically has the single most notoriously corrupt and violent police force in the history of the nation. Yeah, that model is being trained to “help”.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
If you’ve never worked with local governments, you may not realize how independent these departments can be. And also that the people who go into this line of work usually really want to help people. I can’t speak to the situation in LA directly but I seriously doubt they would be sharing their tools with the police unless there was political pressure to do so. Which I think is unlikely in LA.
Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a non-zero chance that LLM is safely secured and incapable of being used for unethical reasons, no matter how “independent” the political groups are.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re going to get it regardless. Question is will we
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
They can just build their own model if they want to. It’s not that hard, especially since the police have a lot of money. So the question is more do we allow this than will they somehow steal it from another unrelated program.