Using AI to Ban Books
April 15, 2024
This article is a little dated, but I am finally getting around to writing about it.  https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/08/14/2157234/iowa-school-district-is-using-ai-to-ban-books  Iowa School District Is Using AI To Ban Books - Slashdot"According to the Globe Gazette, the school board of Mason City, Iowa has begun leveraging AI technology to cultivate lists of potentially bannable books from the district's libraries ahead of the 2023/24 school year. Engadget reports: In May, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed, and ..." Simply giving police, thought police or otherwise, more informational power encourages more draconian interventions. It is hard to  keep the masses from giving power to these people. Brings to mind the debate over legislating AI. The legislators would screw that up, and as we see, use it against us.