World News Headlines July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they’re looking at phones 0 0000 0 0 more AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they’re looking at phones July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found July 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they’re looking at phones Sure, we’ve all snuck a look at our phones in dull meetings. But if you’re working on the taxpayer’s dime, you’d better be ready for artificial intelligence to call you out for gawping at the black mirror in the legislature when you should be, you know, legislating. That’s what digital artist Dries Depoorter did for his latest installation “The Flemish Scrollers.” His software that uses facial recognition to automatically call out politicians in the Flemish province of Belgium who are distracted by their phones when its parliament is in session. The project comes almost two years after Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon caused public outrage after playing Angry Birds during a policy discussion. (Really.) Launched Monday, Depoorter’s system monitors daily livestreams of government meetings on YouTube to assess how long a representative has been looking at their phone versus the meeting in progress. If the AI detects a distracted person, it will publicly identify the party by posting the clip — on Instagram @TheFlemishScrollers, and Twitter @FlemishScroller. The accused representative will be named and shamed with their social media handles. The bot also politely requests they “pls stay focused!” Tweet may have been deleted According to Depoorter’s website, if there is no session in progress, the software will begin analyzing and learning from archived livestreams instead. Whether this means the software will routinely post evidence of past distraction wasn’t clear. Depoorter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Tweet may have been deleted Less than 24 hours into the The Flemish Scrollers going live, the program has already identified four instances of politicians preoccupied by their phones, and sparked discussion among the software’s growing social media following. Tweet may have been deleted As some followers have pointed out, the software’s tendency to jump to conclusions could be a problem. After all, we can’t know what those politicians were up to on their devices; there are times when useful and important work needs doing urgently, even if it is on the same device everyone uses to waste time. Tweet may have been deleted Until the AI software starts reading phones over the shoulders of the legislators, then, we’ll have to just trust that being watched by a bot can help politicians curtail their Angry Birds time. Related Related posts: North Korea says it tested rail-launched ballistic missiles Apple MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) review Philippines group seeks to bar Marcos Jr from election Indonesia wants to use G20 presidency to aid COVID rebound tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous Airbnb's party crackdown has blocked more than 100,000 bookings next US left Afghan airfield at night, didn’t tell new commander. The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours
