Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
Why does it matter if the flagging is automatic? Does that somehow make it more acceptable?<p>The popularity of this view makes me wish more people read Kafka. A future tyranny might end up not being Orwell's <i>1984</i> or Huxley's <i>Brave New World,</i> but a kafkesque nightmare where people are lost in a world of AI giving out absurd punishments. [1] Kafka's book <i>The Castle</i> [2] is essentially about this, although I think his aphorisms and short stories are much better than his novels.<p>Quoting from Wikipedia:<p>> The villagers hold the officials and the castle in high regard, even though they do not appear to know what the officials do. The actions of the officials are never explained. The villagers provide assumptions and justification for the officials' actions through lengthy monologues. Everyone appears to have an explanation for the officials' actions, but they often contradict themselves and there is no attempt to hide the ambiguity. Instead, villagers praise it as another action or feature of an official.<p>Replace <i>officials</i> and <i>castle</i> with <i>AI</i> and it is almost the exact same scenario.<p>1. This is already happening: <a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-criminals-must-stop-now/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-crimi...</a><p>2. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(novel)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(novel)</a>