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automation bias and policing

2026-10-19 17:06:44.561223+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Using the case of Angela Lipps, who was kidnapped from Tennessee by Fargo North Dakota police and held for five months, before being released without charges, based on facial recognition software, and under circumstances that would have been easily disproven with a modicum of police work (and is now suing), Jeffrey L. Vagle writing in the Stanford Law Review: AI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability is a fantastic dive into automation bias and policing, and is worth reading.

Via Shelley Powers @burningbird.net:

An outstanding piece.

'Machines have no legal or moral agency, but the confidence with which they’re programmed to respond to our queries, their remarkable ability to mimic human communication...can lead many to think otherwise.'

[ related topics: Ethics Software Engineering Writing Law Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement Chattanooga Education Artificial Intelligence ]

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