{"id":87391,"date":"2019-02-04T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/china-built-an-ai-to-detect-corruption-and-officials-shut-it-down"},"modified":"2019-02-04T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:22:26","slug":"china-built-an-ai-to-detect-corruption-and-officials-shut-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/china-built-an-ai-to-detect-corruption-and-officials-shut-it-down","title":{"rendered":"China Built an AI to Detect Corruption and Officials Shut it Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-built-an-ai-to-detect-corruption-and-officials-shut-it-down2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI may quickly point out a corrupt official, but it is not very good at explaining the process it has gone through to reach such a conclusion.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cWe just use the machine\u2019s result as reference,\u201d Zhang Yi, an official in a province that\u2019s still using the software, told the <em>SCMP<\/em>. \u201cWe need to check and verify its validity. The machine cannot pick up the phone and call the person with a problem. The final decision is always made by humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Algorithmic Justice<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Though corruption in China is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/china-s-anti-corruption-campaign-recovers-519-million-year-n957491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly widespread<\/a>, officials are probably right to be suspicious of a black box algorithm that can bring down the hammer of justice without explaining its reasoning.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/china-ai-corruption\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/china-ai-corruption<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI may quickly point out a corrupt official, but it is not very good at explaining the process it has gone through to reach such a conclusion. \u201cWe just use the machine\u2019s result as reference,\u201d Zhang Yi, an official in a province that\u2019s still using the software, told the SCMP. \u201cWe need to check and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}