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As computers make more decisions for us; who will be there to question their choices? In my constant search for knowledge, which is best undertaken when deadlines loom, I found an interesting news story published in the New York Times after Chief Justice Roberts gave a talk at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was asked by the college president Shirley Ann ...

Kathleen Maher

As computers make more decisions for us; who will be there to question their choices? In my constant search for knowledge, which is best undertaken when deadlines loom, I found an interesting news story published in the New York Times after Chief Justice Roberts gave a talk at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was asked by the college president Shirley Ann Jackson if could “foresee a day when smart machines, driven with artificial intelligences, will assist with courtroom fact-finding or, more controversially even, judicial decision-making?” Roberts answered her saying, “it’s a day that’s already here.” AI is already deciding the fate
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