While the alphabet agencies of the Federal government are consolidating their Zen level powers of subversion and subterfuge, a leader has emerged in the racetrack combining technology with the Reagan, Thatcher, and Gorbachev era of lightly “SALTed” nuclear armament treaties and traditional investigation methods derived from the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Fear stoking aside on whether the Oprah brand is based on the harrowing and disturbing legend of Medusa turning men into stone and not in the right way, multiple sources have reported that the FBI flirts on the border of a serious relationship with Artificial Intelligence which could results in the apparition and haunting literary figurehead of Phillip K. Dick to blush within the data dump of his novella “The Minority Report” and mathematical models predicating human behavior.
To crime or not to crime.
The prophetic literature by Dick was adapted into a script and became a major Hollywood film addressing an unsettling future that is now being realized. Within this universe while the results of thought experiments may not be favorable to all parties involved, criminology is crossing the border into the unknown expanse of algorithmic fantasies in deeming a human moralistic or completely lacking a compass of decency with nothing in between the two extremes. Hope in society is now a priceless commodity as a result.
While the justice system in certain municipalities experimenting with software technology threatens to replace legal clerks if not magistrates managing case loads of minor infractions or misdemeanors in giving the decision making capability to digital bots, the federal investigation agency that still possesses hints of J. Edgar Hoover has met with a severe backlash in suggesting that AI may be a viable tool to limit domestic threats. Probability theory has become the standard for modeling the decision making capabilities of an individual, a practice that insurance companies have been employing at least from an analogue methodology for decades. Bring on the microchips.
Allegedly, testing mechanisms of machine learning has resulted in the usual paradox of fixing bugs within the code while inducing the obligatory infiltration of Chinese weaponized elements in what could be a battle between two systems of AI in a good versus evil war that the human minions will never be able to comprehend. Contained within the Nuclear age fate was decided in minutes, while the Information Age and the future culminates within the blink of an eye.
As a turnkey solution is foisted upon courts and criminalization may be decided by the execution of a software suite supervised by a limited pool of humans, recourse is avoided as guilty before proven by innocence replaces the fundamental tenets of justice. While the prison system becomes almost entirely privatized contractors are salivating at the intrusion of fundamental rights as criminalization before an illegal act is actually committed destroys lives.
