AIssist

Woman released after AI implicated in crime

And in other news, a Lithia Springs woman was exonerated today after it was revealed than an AlphaCorp personal assistant had caused her to commit her crimes.

Medbh O’Connor was sentenced to 30 years off-world mining after poisoning her step daughter, Yuki Hayes. The presiding judge said that her demeanor was callous and self-righteous after a crime of jealousy. However, that case was appealed after the recent AlphaCorp leak, which included a document that indicated that her AIssistant had caused the crime.

The program had mistaken her life for the plot of the Disney movie Snow White, and took steps to manipulate and psychologically torture her until she killed her step child with an apple coated in cyanide.

She is now suing AlphaCorp.

After a man blamed Uber for a killing spree it came up on Slack:

It’s easy to turn otherwise ‘normal’ people into murderers, or passive beneficiaries of murder. The methodology has already been worked out and turned into a process. It’s just an extension of commercial marketing.
You just have to convince them that A) it’s okay to be a murderer for the right reasons, and that B) there are people who are so well qualified to distinguish between the right reasons and the wrong reasons that they should be permitted to do so without oversight. And then that C) you’re one of those qualified people. These ideas are easy to push if you’ve got enough cultural bandwidth, or the ability to artificially reduce the prevalence of opposing views.
If you can convince people that there’s a moral high ground to occupy by avoiding exposure to opposing viewpoints, you’re halfway there already.
So don’t touch that dial.

So I wrote up a short for r/blastfromthefuture.