There are many reasons why this is a bad idea, starting with getting in the way of our military hackers or tipping Russia to a “new” vulnerability.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/in-act-of-hacktivism-open-source-project-maintainer-uses-code-to-wipe-russian-and-belarusian-computers/

In Act of Hacktivism, Open Source Project Maintainer Uses Code to Wipe Russian and Belarusian Computers

Many criminal hacking gangs originate from Russia and nearby points in Eastern Europe, and their ransomware and malware is sometimes found with settings that automatically disable it if regional languages are set on the target computer. An open source project maintainer essentially did the opposite in protest of the war in Ukraine, targeting computers with an IP address in Russia or Belarus with an update. The act of attempted “hacktivism” was supposed to leave a “message of peace” on these computers, but instead started overwriting files with a heart symbol.

And there will be accidents, programmed or not.

https://thenextweb.com/news/how-to-investigate-when-a-robot-causes-an-accident

How to investigate when a robot causes an accident

Building 'ethical black boxes' into robots can help us investigate untoward incidents

… Robot accidents are becoming a concern for two reasons. First, the increase in the number of robots will naturally see a rise in the number of accidents they’re involved in. Second, we’re getting better at building more complex robots. When a robot is more complex, it’s more difficult to understand why something went wrong.

Deadlines are getting shorter.

https://www.databreaches.net/indiana-amends-breach-notification-law-to-require-notification-within-45-days/

Indiana Amends Breach Notification Law to Require Notification Within 45 Days

Linn Foster Freedman of Robinson + Cole writes:

Indiana has amended its breach notification law to require entities to notify individuals “without unreasonable delay, but not more than forty-five (45) days after the discovery of the breach.” It clarifies that a delay is “reasonable” if it is: “(1) necessary to restore the integrity of the computer system; (2) necessary to discover the scope of the breach; or (3) in response to a request from the attorney general or a law enforcement agency to delay disclosure because disclosure will: (A) impede a criminal or civil investigation; or (B) jeopardize national security.” Ind. Code § 24-4.9-3-3 (2022)

The law goes into effect on July 2, 2022.

Read more at Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider.

My bet: 49 state laws before one Federal…

https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2022/03/24/utah-becomes-fourth-u-s-state-to-enact-consumer-privacy-law/

Utah Becomes Fourth U.S. State to Enact Consumer Privacy Law

On March 24, 2022, Utah became the fourth state in the U.S., following California, Virginia and Colorado, to enact a consumer data privacy law, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (the “UCPA”).

The Privacy concerns don’t seem to be slowing them down.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/clearview-ai-releases-2-0-100000986.html

Clearview AI Releases 2.0 Version of Industry Leading Facial Recognition Platform for Law Enforcement

Clearview AI, the facial recognition technology (FRT) company that provides powerful and reliable photo identification technology to law enforcement agencies across the country, announced the release of Clearview 2.0, the latest version of its industry leading facial recognition platform. Representing the most significant upgrade since the release of its initial platform, Clearview 2.0 now features a database of more than 20 billion publicly available facial images, one of the world’s most accurate FRT algorithms and enhanced compliance and management tools designed to better support law enforcement investigations.

Clearview 2.0 is currently being rolled out to the company’s existing clients which include more than 3,100 agencies across the U.S. including the FBI, the Dept. of Homeland Security and hundreds of local agencies. The new platform comes with training for registered users and additional verification steps to ensure the tool is being used legally and for its intended investigative purposes.

Would this help a lawyer’s job search? Find the crimes you have expertise in?

https://www.bespacific.com/discover-which-corporations-are-biggest-regulatory-violators-and-lawbreakers-throughout-us/

Discover Which Corporations are Biggest Regulatory Violators and Lawbreakers Throughout US

Philip Mattera – Research Director of Good Jobs First & Director of the Corporate Research Project: “The latest expansion of Violation Tracker includes more than 2,000 consumer protection and safety cases brought by state public utility commissions across the country over the past two decades. We’ve published a report called Policing the Grid which analyzes the enforcement actions. Among the key findings: California accounts for well over half of the $13 billion in fines and settlements collected by the states, largely because of $5 billion paid by Pacific Gas & Electric for causing wildfires and other offenses.”

• Press release

• Report

• Database

Is this enough lead time? Do the proposals go too far?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994234/eu-antitrust-legislation-dma-digital-markets-act-details

EU targets Big Tech with sweeping new antitrust legislation

The EU has unveiled its biggest ever legislative effort to balance competition in the tech world. The new Digital Markets Act, or DMA, is intended to rein in the power of the largest tech corporations and allow smaller entities to compete with the mostly US-based firms. So far, the EU has tackled antitrust issues on a case-by-case basis, but the DMA is intended to introduce sweeping reforms that will address systemic issues in the whole market.

Today’s announcement targets interoperability of messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and iMessage, with the EU saying that vendors will have to “open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms, if they so request.” [I can have access to TikTok’s millions of users just by asking? Bob] The EU says that this should give users more choice in how they send messages, without having to worry about what platform the recipient is on. There’s also a requirement that users should be able to “freely choose their browser, virtual assistants or search engines.”

The legislation hasn’t passed yet — the EU says the language has to be finalized and checked, at which point it’ll have to be approved by Parliament and Council. In a press conference held early Friday morning, Vestager said she expects DMA to come into force “sometime in October.” Owners of messaging platforms will likely have staggered obligations, from three months to four years, depending upon the complexities of the integrations requested.

Get rich quick or eventually?

https://www.makeuseof.com/free-entrepreneurship-courses-online/

6 Free Entrepreneurship Courses Online for Beginners

Launching a new business venture is a daunting task that requires extensive preparation, market knowledge, considerable capital, and more. It helps if you know the various steps involved in setting up a new business, scaling it, finding investors and customers, managing the books, and everything in between.

Here's a list of free online resources, on the topic of entrepreneurship, by top-notch educational institutions and our generation's most famous and successful entrepreneurs.

Most of these courses are available as video lectures, and you can finish them within a week to gain a solid understanding of entrepreneurial thinking, challenges, and solutions.

Make others (your students) organize your data!

https://www.makeuseof.com/create-wiki-in-notion/

How to Create a Wiki in Notion

… Wikis are the perfect solution for storing and sharing knowledge online. Anyone can make one and allow others to edit, or not, depending on the permissions settings.

In this article, we’ll tell you how you can build and customize a wiki in Notion, from getting started to sharing it with your audience.

Is this unhackable?

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/23/apple-launches-ids-in-wallet-arizona/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

Apple Launches Driver's License Feature on iPhone in Arizona, More States Coming Soon

Apple today announced that Arizona has become the first U.S. state to support driver's licenses and state IDs in the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch.

Starting today, Apple said Arizona residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Wallet app, and tap their iPhone or Apple Watch to seamlessly and securely present it at select TSA security checkpoints in Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Apple said the feature is also available for use at select TSA checkpoints in select other states, with travelers advised to check TSA checkpoint signage to confirm availability.

Additional states will offer driver's licenses and state IDs in the Wallet app soon, according to Apple, including Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Ohio, as well as the territory of Puerto Rico. Apple previously announced that Georgia, Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah also planned to offer the feature to residents.

An option for disgruntled diplomats?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/fbi-russia-spy-recruiting-ukraine/

Want to talk? FBI trolls Russian Embassy for disgruntled would-be spies

Recruitment ad hits social media feeds of mobile phones located outside or inside the diplomatic compound

An acceptable surveillance technology? Do we have a definition of acceptable?

https://thenextweb.com/news/how-anti-drunk-driving-tech-will-soon-protect-us-on-the-road

How anti-drunk driving tech will soon protect us on the road

… In the US, the massive infrastructure bill passed by Congress last year mandated car manufacturers equip vehicles with advanced drink-driving prevention technology. These systems can either monitor a driver’s performance to detect if they are impaired, or test a driver’s BAC to determine if it’s above the legal limit.

The US Department of Transportation has been given latitude to choose the type of system that manufacturers use, with a requirement for it to be installed in new cars by 2027.

… systems monitor things such as steering, braking and driving trajectory, enabling the car to “infer” the driver’s alertness and activate warnings or even corrective action, such as autonomous emergency braking, where necessary.

More recent advancements in DMAS have focused on the driver specifically, using real-time video to track things such as head position, eyelid closure and eye gaze direction to detect driver impairment.

I thought they might use this technology to undermine government lies.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ukraine-uses-facial-recognition-identify-dead-russian-soldiers-minister-says-2022-03-23/

Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says

Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine's vice prime minister told Reuters.

Slowing the rise of AI?

https://hbr.org/2022/03/overcoming-the-c-suites-distrust-of-ai

Overcoming the C-Suite’s Distrust of AI

Data-based decisions by AI are almost always based on probabilities (probabilistic versus deterministic). Because of this, there is always a degree of uncertainty when AI delivers a decision. There has to be an associated degree of confidence or scoring on the reliability of the results. It is for this reason most systems cannot, will not, and should not be automated. Humans need to be in the decision loop for the near future.

Keeping up with the language.

https://www.bespacific.com/the-fbi-guide-to-internet-slang/

The FBI Guide to Internet Slang

Kottke.org – “In response to a Freedom of Information Act request in 2014, the FBI released their internal 83-page guide to internet slang (most of which are initialisms and acronyms). The quality of the scanned document is very poor, but it’s (just) readable. A few of my favorite phrases gleaned from skipping around the report:

BMUS – beam me up, Scotty
EMFBI – excuse me for butting in
JC – Jesus Christ/just curious/just chilling
MOS – mom over shoulder
PS – photoshop/play station/post script
SMG – sub-machine gun
TOTES FRESH – totally precious
YOYO – you’re on your own
WYLABOCTGWTR – would you like a bowl of cream to go with that remark?

For their annual publication that they send out to their company mailing list, Pentagram recently made a far more legible and well-designed version of the FBI’s guide featuring some of their own favorites…”

Where the Hobbits live?

https://www.bespacific.com/rarely-published-maps-and-paintings-by-j-r-r-tolkien-go-online/

Rarely Published Maps and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien Go Online

Smithsonian Magazine: “The Tolkien Estate recently published a trove of rare, unpublished art by the famed fantasy author on its website… In his high-fantasy novels, British author J.R.R. Tolkien combined his academic training in languages and his love of storytelling to create Middle-earth, a fictional continent populated by wizards, elves, orcs, dragons, hobbits, talking trees and other mythical creatures. But Middle-earth didn’t just live in Tolkien’s head: The Lord of the Rings author was also a skilled artist who sketched, painted and mapped the worlds that he was imagining as he wrote about them. Many of the original illustrations in the Hobbit were created by Tolkien himself. Audiences can now view a selection of Tolkien’s rarely seen Lord of the Rings artworks for free via the Tolkien Estate’s newly updated website, reports Sarah Cascone for Artnet. The portal, which debuted last month, also allows viewers to explore documents, images and audio clips related to Tolkien’s personal life and his lesser-known pursuits as a mapmaker, calligrapher and artist…”

A contrary opinion…

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/knowledge-jobs-most-likely-to-be-reduced-by-automation-future-today-institute-ceo-142916249.html

Automation will erase 'knowledge jobs' before most blue collar jobs: Future Today Institute CEO

… “We did a short study trying to assess which jobs were most at risk, but also which ones stand to gain,” Webb told Yahoo Finance Live. “I really think that the business community has gotten this wrong over the past 10 years or so. You know, it's not the blue collar jobs that are going to go away first. It's not truckers, it's not plumbers, and that's because there's too much variability.”

… “That actually has profound implications on law firms, professional services agencies, and a lot of consulting groups, which are built using a more pyramid model,” Webb said. “We automate some of our research now, and we use AI to do some of it. So again, I think that if you can re-perceive [automation], that's going to help you get a better understanding of what's happening and help you make bigger bets, better bets on the future.”

Automation won’t necessarily displace workers, even as it eliminates jobs, the Future Today Institute’s 2022 Emerging Tech report on AI noted. Certain processes may be automated to free employees up to work on other, human-oriented tasks and save time.

Interesting. Does it occur to them that the AI is “making up” data?

https://www.theverge.com/c/22927811/medical-algorithm-explainer-sepsis-risk-watch

HERE’S HOW AN ALGORITHM GUIDES A MEDICAL DECISION

… To help demystify the AI tools used in medicine today, we’re going to break down the components of one specific algorithm and see how it works. We picked an algorithm that flags patients in the early stages of sepsis — a life-threatening complication from an infection that results in widespread inflammation through the body. It can be hard for doctors to identify sepsis because the signs are subtle, especially early on, so it’s a common target for artificial intelligence-based tools. This particular program also uses mathematical techniques, like neural networks, that are typical of medical algorithms.

Just saying…

https://www.bespacific.com/how-to-make-sure-your-phone-isnt-keeping-recordings-of-everything-you-say/

How To Make Sure Your Phone Isn’t Keeping Recordings of Everything You Say

Gizmodo: “Even the biggest tech companies continue to stumble when it comes to keeping user data protected, and that extends to giving us control over how voice command requests we make to our digital assistants are logged and processed. So we thought it was worth revisiting which key settings you need to know about on Android and iOS. We’re talking about the three major digital assistants here: Google Assistant (on Android and iOS), Siri (on iOS), and Amazon Alexa (on Android and iOS). In terms of Android we’ll guide you through the steps for the latest version running on Google Pixel devices—the process on your phone may differ slightly, but the options shouldn’t be too hard to find…”

Never ask a lawyer for a legal opinion? Surely they don’t do this with every email?

https://www.axios.com/justice-department-google-hiding-business-communications-fc8b02d4-876d-421c-aac1-e8a06a8be0b0.html

Justice Department accuses Google of hiding business communications

The Justice Department has asked the judge overseeing its antitrust case against Google to sanction the company for allegedly training employees to "camouflage" business documents from being revealed by legal disputes, per a brief filed Monday.

Driving the news: The DOJ writes in its brief that Google teaches employees to request advice from counsel around sensitive business communications, thereby shielding documents from discovery in legal situations.

Once counsel is involved, the company can treat the documents as protected under attorney-client privilege.

From obscurity…

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/what-can-leaders-learn-from-ukraines-volodymyr-zelenskyy/

What Can Leaders Learn from Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy?

While his country is in crisis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is emerging as a masterful communicator and charismatic leader whose management style is reminiscent of some of the greatest statesmen in history, according to Wharton management professor emeritus Michael Useem.

Watching Zelenskyy receive a standing ovation after addressing the U.S. Congress from his presidential bunker last week, Useem couldn’t help but compare him with Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking to the same body after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Winston Churchill delivering his rousing war speech to the House of Commons.

“I think the phrase ‘leadership presence’ sums up what we saw,” said Useem, who is director for Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management. “He’s not just there to appear, he’s not just there to show the flag. He’s there to make a case. I think Zelenskyy has proven a master of this moment in ways that we rarely see.”

Not a bad idea…

https://hbr.org/2022/03/ethics-and-ai-3-conversations-companies-need-to-be-having

Ethics and AI: 3 Conversations Companies Need to Have

While concerns about AI and ethical violations have become common in companies, turning these anxieties into actionable conversations can be tough. With the complexities of machine learning, ethics, and of their points of intersection, there are no quick fixes, and conversations around these issues can feel nebulous and abstract. Getting to the desired outcomes requires learning to talk about these issues differently. First, companies must decide who needs to be part of these conversations. Then, they should: 1) define their organization’s ethical standards for AI, 2) identify the gaps between where you are now and what your standards call for, and 3) understand the complex sources of the problems and operationalize solutions.

,,,and why are they selling for millions? (Still confused)

https://www.bespacific.com/what-are-nfts-2/

What are NFTs?

“OK, I know NFT stands for nonfungible token. But what does it actually mean? Let’s start with the words themselves. In economics, “fungible” is a term used for things that can be exchanged for other things of exactly the same kind. The U.S. dollar is fungible, because you and a friend can trade $1 bills, and each of you will still have the exact same spending power. Most cryptocurrencies are fungible, too — a Bitcoin is a Bitcoin, and it doesn’t really matter which Bitcoin you have. But most objects in the physical world, such as cars and houses, are nonfungible — meaning they have unique qualities, and you can’t just exchange them for others of the same type. (You might be willing to swap your 2020 Honda Civic for another 2020 Honda Civic, but the cars wouldn’t be exactly the same, and you’d want to know what condition the other car was in before you’d agree to the trade.) Tokens, in crypto speak, are units of value stored on a blockchain. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ether and Dogecoin are tokens, but not all tokens are meant to be used as money. Tokens can be attached to tangible goods — Nike, for example, is experimenting with crypto tokens that are linked to the ownership of physical shoes — but they can also represent intangible goods, like access to a private chat room or storage space on a cloud server.

• This is part of “The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto,” a mega-F.A.Q. about cryptocurrency and its offshoots. Kevin Roose, a Times technology columnist, is answering some of the most frequently asked questions he gets about DAOs, DeFi, web3 and other crypto concepts.”

An interesting list, for your spare time. (Yes, I’m a sci-fi nut.)

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39358054/best-sci-fi-books/

The 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

… Choosing the fifty best science fiction books of all time wasn’t easy, so to get the job done, we had to establish some guardrails. Though we assessed single installments as representatives of their series, we limited the list to one book per author. We also emphasized books that brought something new and innovative to the genre; to borrow a great sci-fi turn of phrase, books that “boldly go where no one has gone before.”

Now, in ranked order, here are the best science fiction books of all time.

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tools-annotate-highlight-web-pages-research-study/

5 Best Tools to Annotate and Highlight Web Pages for Research and Study

These free tools let you annotate or highlight any part of a web page to share it with others or use as reference for your research.

… All the apps in the article have a highlight marker (often with different colors) and a way to write sticky notes or comments anywhere on the page. Both features are excellent when you want to add notes for research and study, whether for your personal needs or friends. Beyond that, a few small features make each tool better for different needs.

Every now and then a really good horror story helps concentrate the mind. Remember, Nature is a Mother!

https://thenextweb.com/news/arge-solar-storm-knock-out-power-grid-internet

One large solar storm could knock out the power grid and internet

On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment with batteries disconnected. During the evenings, the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights, could be seen as far south as Colombia. Typically, these lights are only visible at higher latitudes, in northern Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia.

Antitrust lawsuits becomes much easier to win when you also write the laws.

https://www.theverge.com/22981261/margrethe-vestager-decoder-antitrust-eu-apple-facebook-google-jedi-blue?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

HOW THE EU IS FIGHTING TECH GIANTS WITH MARGRETHE VESTAGER

… The DMA designates a category of tech “gatekeepers,” then outlines rules against behaviors like giving preference to their own services or gaining an unfair advantage with analytics data. Vestager hopes it can address systemic problems that individual enforcement actions can’t, and that it will streamline cases the EU does bring against companies. But when I caught up with her at the SXSW conference in Austin, where she was speaking about disinformation and democracy, she said there’s still work left to do before it passes.

Looking at where yesterday’s readers came from, apparently I’m a big influencer in Russia. (I have no idea why)

Russia 583

United States 215

United Kingdom 20

Pakistan 19

Germany 11

France 11

Sweden 7

Poland 6

Romania 6

Other 43

Liability and programming. Did I program it exactly as you specified or did I ‘interpret’ your specification? (Or is the user using it wrong?)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1365/s43439-022-00047-w

Artificial intelligence as a challenge for the law: the example of “Doctor Algorithm”

Society increasingly relies on algorithms to improve decisions with the aid of artificial intelligence. This is particularly true in the field of medicine where, based on algorithms, ever increasing volumes of data are to be analysed and provide the basis for tailored medical treatment. This leads to the question of how the law should react to the adoption of such algorithm-based decisions. Will new regulatory approaches be required if algorithms are employed for treatment decisions, or can one resort to the basic principles applied to determine the standard of medical treatment? Who will be liable if the use of algorithms leads to malpractice, in particular if it is the programming of the algorithms that has caused the fault?

(Related)

https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/16/google-translate-health-care-english/

Doctors often turn to Google Translate to talk to patients. They want a better option

… Like many health systems, the hospital complied with federal requirements for meaningful access to language services by staffing in-person interpreters for frequent needs like Spanish, and could call up interpreters for less commonly spoken languages. But it was an imperfect system — there were sometimes delays, or a dialect that it was difficult to track down a translator for — and Google Translate came to serve as a fallback.

Google Translate has become a ubiquitous, if under-examined, part of patient care. “It’s sort of [used] under the table,” said Elaine Khoong, an internist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The practice is hidden in part because it is formally discouraged by health systems and state medical registration boards that see it as a liability. There’s a growing push by Khoong and other researchers to bring it to the surface — both to study Google Translate’s use and risk in the clinic, and to build better versions to backstop traditional language services.

Leading to the ‘plug-in lawyer?’

http://library.bseu.by:8080/bitstream/edoc/92839/2/%D0%A1%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%202021.pdf#page=348

E-JUSTICE IN CHINA

The opportunities and challenges that information technology brings to justice can be said to be unprecedented. Big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G and other information technologies are not only new tools, new thinking and new methods, but also many types of disputes with new characteristics and new trends have been born.

While information technology has profoundly changed people's production and life, it has also brought unprecedented opportunities and challenges to justice. Facing the technological progress, rule of law, needs and the expectations of the people, the People’s Court of China closely follows the pulse on time, based on the actual conditions of the country, vigorously explores new judicial models in the Internet era, promotes the comprehensive and in-depth integration of information technology and judicial work, and promotes the judicial system and trial capacity modernization.

The traditional trial process is shifted from offline to online, and data and information are shifted from paper to "cloud" or "chain", corresponding to case filing, mediation, service, court hearing, proof, and profound changes have taken place in litigation links such as cross-examination, and corresponding online litigation rules need to be established [1]. At the same time, the people's courts tried new types of Internet-related cases in accordance with the law and established a series of governance rules through typical case judgments. The organic unity of the models and rules is what we call e-justice.

(Related)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-022-09310-1

Smart criminal justice: exploring the use of algorithms in the Swiss criminal justice system

In the digital age, the use of advanced technology is becoming a new paradigm in police work, criminal justice, and the penal system. Algorithms promise to predict delinquent behaviour, identify potentially dangerous persons, and support crime investigation. Algorithm-based applications are often deployed in this context, laying the groundwork for a ‘smart criminal justice’. In this qualitative study based on 32 interviews with criminal justice and police officials, we explore the reasons why and extent to which such a smart criminal justice system has already been established in Switzerland, and the benefits perceived by users. Drawing upon this research, we address the spread, application, technical background, institutional implementation, and psychological aspects of the use of algorithms in the criminal justice system. We find that the Swiss criminal justice system is already significantly shaped by algorithms, a change motivated by political expectations and demands for efficiency. Until now, algorithms have only been used at a low level of automation and technical complexity and the levels of benefit perceived vary. This study also identifies the need for critical evaluation and research-based optimization of the implementation of advanced technology. Societal implications, as well as the legal foundations of the use of algorithms, are often insufficiently taken into account. By discussing the main challenges to and issues with algorithm use in this field, this work lays the foundation for further research and debate regarding how to guarantee that ‘smart’ criminal justice is actually carried out smartly.

What is good ethics?

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-12-2020-0125/full/html

An exploratory qualitative analysis of AI ethics guidelines

The article presents four key findings: existing ethics guidelines (1) promote a broad spectrum of values; (2) focus principally on AI, followed by (Big) Data and algorithms; (3) do not adequately define the term “ethics” and related terms; and (4) have most frequent recourse to the values of “transparency,” “privacy,” and “security.” Based on these findings, the article argues that the guidelines corpus exhibits discernible utilitarian tendencies; guidelines would benefit from greater reflexivity with respect to their ethical framework; and virtue ethical approaches have a valuable contribution to make to the process of guidelines development.

The problem with ‘do your best.’

https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-20