<story><title>French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/french-tax-officials-use-ai-to-spot-20000-undeclared-pools</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Solvency</author><text>Imagine an AI that instead finds potential infrastructure problems riddled across the country. Buildings, bridges, roads, you name it. Then the AI priorities them into a queue and generates cost&amp;#x2F;resource estimates for repairs. Thereby helping the government improve the livelihood of its constituents!&lt;p&gt;Or wait, imagine if the AI were finding all the rivers and lakes that corporations are dumping trash, chemicals, and other waste products into!&lt;p&gt;Right? Right? Surely they&amp;#x27;d do that with this great technology!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kwanbix</author><text>Imagine an AI that instead can find corrupt politicians, judges, and business men! That would be something!</text></comment>
<story><title>French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/french-tax-officials-use-ai-to-spot-20000-undeclared-pools</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Solvency</author><text>Imagine an AI that instead finds potential infrastructure problems riddled across the country. Buildings, bridges, roads, you name it. Then the AI priorities them into a queue and generates cost&amp;#x2F;resource estimates for repairs. Thereby helping the government improve the livelihood of its constituents!&lt;p&gt;Or wait, imagine if the AI were finding all the rivers and lakes that corporations are dumping trash, chemicals, and other waste products into!&lt;p&gt;Right? Right? Surely they&amp;#x27;d do that with this great technology!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkt</author><text>These are all things the state used to do without AI - people did it perfectly well. Regrettably it isn&amp;#x27;t a matter of technology that prevents this sort of thing. It is the hollowing out of the public sphere, the shrinking of state workforces, and the diminishing horizons of what is considered to be &amp;#x27;feasible&amp;#x27; - where feasibility is often determined by consultants.</text></comment>