This essay, on the problem of blaming machines for human decisions, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 11 June 2023, under the headline “Fantasy fears about AI are obscuring how we already abuse machine intelligence”. Last November, a young African American man, Randal Quran Reid, was pulled over by the state police in Georgia as he was driving into Atlanta. He was arrested under warrants issued by Louisiana police for two cases of theft in New Orleans. Reid […]

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