Comment by danesparza
9 days ago
For Americans wondering what this is all about, this 4 part series captures what happened well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Bates_vs_The_Post_Office
9 days ago
For Americans wondering what this is all about, this 4 part series captures what happened well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Bates_vs_The_Post_Office
its great that exists and that it got attention.
Its an immense problem that it got so little attention until someone made a TV dramatisation of it. There are definitely many other miscarriages of justice caused by the assumption that systems are always correct, and these are not being corrected.
The lack of consequences for those responsible also means there is no deterrent to others doing similar things.
I think hopefully it raises that awareness that these systems are imperfect and do not allow people to delegate their decision making totally. I'm afraid rise of AI and the increase in more plausible sounding yet incorrect behaviours won't help us there. We should use this as an instructive example on how we can built more transparent/useful systems for all of our users.
> these systems are imperfect and do not allow people to delegate their decision making totally
There's no evidence this scandal arose from software allowing any delegation of decisions.
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