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Comment by khafra

Anybody who's keeping track of reasons that we can't 'just unplug the AI if it starts hurting people," increment your counter.

Also, it's ironic that this unemployment claim-processing AI is being used by the state to avoid improving pay or working conditions to hire new workers:

> Nevada...has a backlog of more than 40,000 appeals stemming from a pandemic-related spike in unemployment claims while dealing with "unforeseen staffing shortages" that DETR reported in July.

parent khafra 2 years ago

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