compare it to human police officers who can racially profile and exhibit their prejudices
It's already been demonstrated that computers can racially profile people. Everything from consumer cameras that tell the users that people in the pictures don't have their eyes open, but in reality are Asian; to chatbots that turn into Nazi bullhorns.
You can at least train a bad cop to be better. Or fire them. How do you fire an AI into which an authoritarian government poured billions of dollars, years of work, and reams of press releases?
AI was made by people, and because of that will always be flawed. It's only in science fiction books that computers and algorithms are perfect and clean and rational.
It's already been demonstrated that computers can racially profile people. Everything from consumer cameras that tell the users that people in the pictures don't have their eyes open, but in reality are Asian; to chatbots that turn into Nazi bullhorns.
You can at least train a bad cop to be better. Or fire them. How do you fire an AI into which an authoritarian government poured billions of dollars, years of work, and reams of press releases?
AI was made by people, and because of that will always be flawed. It's only in science fiction books that computers and algorithms are perfect and clean and rational.