Marcelo Rinesi2 min readintro
Harry and the Three Witches
Summary
A fictional employee interacts with three AI 'witches'—future, past, and present—that predict and encourage a crime. The story highlights how pervasive AI surveillance can shape decisions.
- Predictive AI systems can assign high confidence scores to user intent.
- Overreliance on such predictions may influence employee behavior.
- Embedding surveillance into everyday tools raises privacy concerns.
Engineers building predictive or surveillance AI should consider the ethical impact on user autonomy.
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