Proof of life? Why should we humans need to prove to machines that we are alive?
Todays signal looks at the very alive people in India being deemed dead by state (artificial, digital) machinery and therefore being denied their rights as citizens.
(Kind of the opposite of really dead South African bureaucrats collecting salaries (or at least the grifters who use their details) for decades post humously…)
If you’re not scared enough, go read Tracey Follows book, The Future of You.
And always, let me know your own sightings of weapons of math destruction in the wild.
Dead until proven alive : https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2024/1/25/in-india-an-algorithm-declares-them-dead-they-have-to-prove-theyre
The future of you : https://www.amazon.com/Future-You-Identity-21st-Century-Technology/dp/1783965452
Proof of life