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by pickleglitch 149 days ago
That's where AI come into play. This is why Palantir exists.
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Palantir will give a lot of fake positives and overload remainder of ICE forces who will be chasing ghosts.

Heck even Google believes that I am a woman and is constantly showing me women hair and clothes products. And they are doing targeted data mining for ads business for decades.

ICE doesn't give a shit about false positives. They are already using a facial recognition app as definitive proof of someone's immigration status, even when they are shown documentation such as a birth certificate. They don't care if it's accurate, they just want targets.
Then what they need AI for? Just pick random people from the street and deport them wherever.
That would make the agents culpable. If they're just doing what the AI told them to do, then who can hold them responsible? After all, the AI is smarter than all humans combined, who can argue with its wisdom?

Expect "The AI told me to do it" to be tried as a defense at Nuremburg 2.0

This is the correct question to be asking, but maybe not for the reason you thought. AI is an incredible tool for shifting liability and manufacturing plausible deniability, which appears to be exceedingly useful for authoritarian regimes around the world. Not just externally (i.e. in media), but internally as well (Ender’s Game: shoot the guy the computer says is bad, never give mind to whether or why he’s bad).
The much easier solution is ID laws and make everyone get a passport. Fucking amateurs.

Mobile phone? Passport Voting? Passport Buy weed? Passport Police stop? Passport

But that wouldn't let tech bros get paid billions I suppose.

Take a look at your sibling comments, that AI is a mistake is a flawed viewpoint. It’s very much doing what it’s intended to do: shift liability and create plausible deniability.
I mean that's in Europe, but it is called Citizen ID - State issued card automatically when you are 15, looking like drivers license, renewed every 10 years.
Be glad we have Palantir and not Decima.
This is exactly why palatir exists.

They data mine for you.