Trump wants to “detect mass shooters before they strike.” It won’t work.

Trump wants to “detect mass shooters before they strike.” It won’t work.

Abstract:

New article on Vox highlights the work of Desmond Patton, Technology and Human Rights Fellow.

Desmond Patton, a Technology and AI fellow at the Carr Center, emphasized that current AI tools tend to identify the language of African American and Latinx people as gang-involved or otherwise threatening, but consistently miss the posts of white mass murderers.

"I think technology is a tool, not the tool," said Patton. "Often we use it as an escape so as to not address critical solutions that need to come through policy. We have to pair tech with gun reform. Any effort that suggests we need to do them separately, I don’t think that would be a successful effort at all.”

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: Desmond Patton | Aug 7 2019
: New article on Vox highlights the work of Desmond Patton, Technology and Human Rights Fellow.
Last updated on 01/30/2020