Can you imagine what would happen if we used the same resources to talk people down instead of rile them up?
Some people get sent down a dark path and finding someone to pull them up out of it can really help.
Instead I'd guess that these programs can likely drive them deeper and over the edge.
>to talk people down instead of rile them up
Well then, police budgets would go down! And if police budgets go down then you are less safe!
Having no crime is more dangerous for politicians then some baseline of crime. If there is no crime they can't run on a hardball anti-crime platform and ignore everything else. If you run into a situation where there is no crime, it's easy enough to go invent some, generally focused at the young and poor.
>Can you imagine what would happen if we used the same resources to talk people down instead of rile them up?
The same exact persistence of the establishment and status quo but with less violence and crime and political unrest to justify their budgets with, hence why they're using it to radicalize and not calm down people.
That would be a really decent application of AI.
We already have the beginnings of "AI therapists." Not sure how well they'll work, but they probably won't make people's pathologies worse.
As opposed to just about Every. Single. Online. Social. Network.
There's just waaaay too much lovely money to be made, by feeding people's ids.