AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams Typically, automation disproportionately impacts bricklayers, assembly line workers, and other blue-collar jobs . The government managerial class, comprised mostly of lawyers, has hitherto enjoyed the luxury of ignoring these trends, as they don’t impact their own lives or anyone in their social circles.
Who cares if the peasants starve out on the bread line, right? D.C. is still a boomtown. But now the AI hostile takeover, perhaps, is coming for their livelihoods.
A cyberpunk app called DoNotPay , according to its purveyor, “utilizes artificial intelligence to help consumers fight against large corporations and solve their problems like beating parking tickets, appealing bank fees, and suing robocallers.” An artificial intelligence is set to advise a defendant in court for the first time ever. The AI will run on a smartphone and listen to all speech in the courtroom in February before instructing the defendant on what to say via […]
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