Prediction: We will see prosecutors trotting out "evidence" that AI thinks someone is guilty.
Because—as with polygraphs—unless prevented from doing so, prosecutors are more interested whether a thing will convince a jury than they are whether it is actually factual.
And AI is optimized for verisimilitude, not for truth.
Reginald
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