Hacker News

4606 readers

761 users here now

Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.

The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.

Source of the RSS Bot

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se

rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se

113

AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case (www.grandforksherald.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] percent 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't take pleasure in defending an AI company, and I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt she'd have case here. The AI tool is just a tool (and one based on probabilistic algorithms). She should sue whatever parts of the "justice" system misused the tool.

If a cop wrongfully shoots someone, and it's the cop's fault (i.e. not a gun malfunction), I would guess that it would be hard to sue the gun manufacturer instead of the police department.