Both humans and computers interpret intent wrong.
**I remember when I was younger and my friends mom use to always use the phrase “I’m going to kill him,” when talking about her son. Now… I knew that she didn’t mean that but a computer might red flag that comment differently. She’d use this phrase but she’d never do that.
**Then sometimes my friends would say “I’m so fat” and they were like a size 3. Think about how a computer might interpret that information.
Computers and science are great to use but sometimes calculations are wrong. I will give you a living example.
One day I was washing laundry and this pregnant woman came in crying and went into the restroom. After a little while I had to go but she was still in there. Others had observed that she was crying and very upset when she went in. Eventually, I knocked on the door and asked her if she was OK. Then someone else washing their clothes told me that her boyfriend had hit her outside. So I looked outside and this guy was huge. I had no phone on me. Then I checked on her again and the boyfriend came inside. He went to the bathroom door and said a few horrible things and even called her a child molester through the door. They weren’t customers and I had to use the bathroom so I asked him why he was being rude to her and if she really was a child molester? He then said something about her touching a 20 something year old. So not only did this guy curse at her, he lied in front of everyone and called her a child molester just to make her look bad. This truly was a crazy situation. The cable was down at the laundromat along with the phones. I pointed out to the guy that his girlfriend won’t come out of the bathroom because she’s scared. At this point almost 30 minutes had passed. I then asked him to leave so she can come out of the bathroom. Huge dude over 6’3″. He then informed me that he was from Camden, like I am suppose to care about that and to stop harassing him. At his first accusation of harassment I said, “OK,” and walked away. Then I went next door and called the cops. When the cops arrived he tried to sell them that …she’s harassing me line and it didn’t work because the guy was a chump. She came out of the bathroom when the cops arrived and explained to them what happened.
Now, I am 5’4″ and a smidgen and I completely understand how it feels to be afraid of guys. By all calculations I should have done what the other people did there. Which was just sit back and watch a grown, huge man degrade a pregnant girl who had no phone and the facility also had no phone. I could of, because he was huge, just stood there feeling bad for her and justify my silence by saying, “It’s none of my business” or “she deserves it for XYZ” or “I am not equipped to deal with it.”
However, instead I took all my assessments of the situation, chose faith and told the guy off. Why? Because I would never want someone to sit back and watch that being done to me. Nor would I want my son to ever do that to a woman. How can we look in the face of our sisters, nieces, daughters or mothers and not take action.
This also was not the time to teach her women’s empowerment. To let her struggle so she will “learn” when she’s in the eye of the storm, pregnant and vulnerable is even more heinous a crime. I’m not sure why this woman was with such a jerk but that wasn’t the time to victim blame and to analyze all her mistakes along the way to find a reason to blame her. It was a time for choosing and for her I chose to offer her a life that felt just a little bit safer.
I have no doubt that when this man was outside on the phone he was calling people they both knew to spread lies on this poor woman before she arrived where they were headed because that is what abusers do. They are very good at canvassing their lies. What’s even scarier is that computers that have the input of millions of circumstances can be programmed to deceive and lie too.
Now, think about man in alignment with AI. Computers can write a story for your life and make you into everything that you’re not just like an abusive boyfriend.