• @Pips
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    515 days ago

    There’s a Pardon Office at the DOJ that normally handles vetting and recommending pardons. Realistically, there’s no way to do it apolitically. Everyone has a political bias, which will be reflected in the recommendations.

    • @theangryseal@lemmy.world
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      115 days ago

      It’s a bummer that we can’t be more apolitical. I mean, I know it’s doable. It would be hard to vet people, but probably doable.

      Maybe AI will be of some use to humanity and will be fed case data one day and then it can bring the odd ones to the top.

      Who knows? Not me, I’m just an idiot.

      • @Pips
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        415 days ago

        AI is inherently biased by the input. It’s glorified analytics and predictive text/pixel software that relies on existing data. So what’s best is what we’re doing. It would just as likely recommend more executions.

        • @theangryseal@lemmy.world
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          115 days ago

          I mean, maybe it could analyze data and show where people have been convicted with no evidence so that humans wouldn’t have to go digging for it.

          I don’t know. I don’t know anything about it really.

          • @Pips
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            215 days ago

            Everyone is convicted with some evidence. The problem for a lot of these actual innocence cases is the evidence is either not actually very compelling or made up. For example, a shitty eyewitness saying they saw the defendant do it is still evidence, even if it turns out they’re wrong.