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+---
+layout: writings
+title: AIssist
+date: 2016-03-24
+body: |
+  ## Woman released after AI implicated in crime
+  
+  And in other news, a Lithia Springs woman was exonerated today after it was
+  revealed than an AlphaCorp personal assistant had caused her to commit her
+  crimes.
+  
+  Medbh O’Connor was sentenced to 30 years off-world mining after poisoning her
+  step daughter, Yuki Hayes. The presiding judge said that her demeanor was
+  callous and self-righteous after a crime of jealousy. However, that case was
+  appealed after the recent AlphaCorp leak, which included a document that
+  indicated that her AIssistant had caused the crime.
+  
+  The program had mistaken her life for the plot of the Disney movie Snow White,
+  and took steps to manipulate and psychologically torture her until she killed
+  her step child with an apple coated in cyanide.
+  
+  She is now suing AlphaCorp.
+notes: |
+  After [a man blamed Uber for a killing spree](http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/03/uber-driver-app-killing-spree/)
+  it came up on [Slack](http://cyberpunkfuturism.slack.com):
+
+    > It's easy to turn otherwise 'normal' people into murderers, or passive
+    > beneficiaries of murder. The methodology has already been worked out and
+    > turned into a process. It's just an extension of commercial marketing.
+    >
+    > You just have to convince them that A) it's okay to be a murderer for the
+    > right reasons, and that B) there are people who are so well qualified to
+    > distinguish between the right reasons and the wrong reasons that they
+    > should be permitted to do so without oversight. And then that C) you're one
+    > of those qualified people. These ideas are easy to push if you've got
+    > enough cultural bandwidth, or the ability to artificially reduce the
+    > prevalence of opposing views.
+    >
+    > If you can convince people that there's a moral high ground to occupy by avoiding exposure to opposing viewpoints, you're halfway there already.
+    >
+    > So don't touch that dial.
+
+  So I wrote up a short for [r/blastfromthefuture](http://reddit.com/r/blastfromthefuture).
+syndication:
+  Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/blastfromthefuture/comments/4bszij/woman_released_after_ai_implicated_in_crime/
+---
+{% extends 'templates/base.html' %}
+{% block body %}
+	<nav>
+		<a href='/writings'>&gt; writings</a>
+	</nav>
+	<header>
+		<h1>{{ title }}</h1>
+	</header>
+
+	<article>{{ body | markdown }}</article>
+	<hr />
+	<aside>{{ notes | markdown }}</aside>
+{% endblock %}