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Denny Vrandečić
Husband. Dad. Cat housemate. PhD. Works on Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions at Wikimedia Foundation. Wikidata founder. Previously: ontologist at Google, Wikimedia Trustee, and RPG author. Roots in Brač, Croatia. Stuttgart, Germany. he/him. Views my own.
Posting cat pics and occasionally other stuff.
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When we start outsourcing thinking to AI and allow to lose accountability, bad things happen.
On July 14, 2025, Angela Lipps was babysitting in her Tennessee home when police arrested her for fraud. She was held in a local county jail until October, then moved to a Fargo jail until December 24, when a judge dismissed the charges. She was released into a frigid North Dakota winter with only the summer clothing she had been wearing when arrested in Tennessee.
It turned out she had proof she was in Tennessee when the bank fraud happened in North Dakota. An investigation prior to arrest would have found that out, but that was skipped in favor of rapid advice from a facial recognition program using AI to sort through photographs scraped from the internet.
Police offered no apology for her five-month incarceration, and she had to rely on donations to make her way to Chicago.
Unfortunately, her story is not unique."
Also, I learned the word "agnotology".
Stanford Law ReviewAI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability | Stanford Law ReviewLaw enforcement agencies have increasingly employed artificial intelligence (AI) in their investigatory methods and technology. This usage, however, r