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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/
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