#AI systems accelerate the pace of war. "AI can contribute to mis- or disinformation, creating and amplifying dangerous misunderstandings in times of war. AI systems may increase the human tendency to trust suggestions from machines (this is highlighted by the Habsora system, named after the infallible word of God)".
"If a person has enough similarities to other people labelled as an enemy combatant, they too may be labelled a combatant themselves."
By design #generativeAI delivers whatever.
How it works is that the engineer takes obtained #data, grabs some probabilities and then the software outputs answers at scale.
If answers could be "true" is out of the scope.
If we live in a "solutionist age" (remember: E. Morozov), why are technological solutions to the climate issue ( #geoengineering e.g. direct air capture) so unpopular (meaning: at least in Germany, I don't see any significant public support)?
The "fiction of the neutrality of the judge and of her decisions, symbolised by the assertion of a uniform judicial body under her black robe, does not stand to a scientific approach".
"Analysis of structural logics and observation of judicial practices reveal the existence of decision-making biases that are less individual than collective, less subjective than systemic."
Unitary management:
"A good decision is no longer a decision legally well-supported, but a decision made within a reasonable time, which will not be appealed and whose application will incur fewer costs."
Risk tools come to still improve our chances. A study shows:
➤ Risk assessment reduces the likelihood of incarceration for relatively affluent defendants,
➤ Risk assessment increases the likelihood of incarceration for relatively poor defendants.
It has already been possible to change an #iPhone's default web browser through the "Settings" app since iOS 14.
#Apple has a March 6 legal deadline to introduce app sideloading in the European Union in order to comply with the Digital Markets Act #DMA, and iOS 17.4 will add support for this. #Sideloading will allow Apple users to download apps outside of the App Store, but the change will be limited to customers in the EU.
Now is an opportunity to improve your web experience… and your safety…
"Micromanagement is fundamentally incompatible with psychological safety. And without psychological safety, teams don’t innovate, learn from their mistakes, or grow in ability."
"We can see the division of the globe into grievable and ungrievable lives from the perspective of those who wage war in order to defend the lives of certain communities, and to defend them against the lives of others — even if it means taking those latter lives."
"The Principle of #Proportionality, codified in Protocol I Additional to the #Geneva Conventions, defines as disproportionate any attack in which the incidental damage to civilians is excessive in relation to the military advantage anticipated from the attack. However, it is close to impossible to pinpoint exactly what is meant by “excessive”. This writer posits that this vagueness is not a coincidence, but rather a tool, serving the purposes of attacking states."
"One ‘moral technology’ plays a central role in contemporary Western wars: ‘rules of engagement’. These rules take the form of (written) texts which state the circumstances under which the soldiers/airmen are authorized to open fire. Their claim to ‘morality’ stems from the fact that they present themselves as invitations to ‘master’ violence. [They] provide a concrete and operational translation of the ‘proportionality’ principle by stating how many ‘non-combatants’ airmen are allowed to kill"…