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For our post budget special we will be interviewing the Maori Party co-leader, followed by a panel debate on the Budget with:
- Head of Business at NZME Fran O’Sullivan
- Labour Party Finance Spokesperson, Barbara Edmonds
- Former National MP and Waatea’s Senior Press Gallery Journalist, Claudette Hauiti
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You’re all energised. Bomber puts you all in his backpack.
wait wait wait. No hold on a sec. firstly. “WHAT THE FUCK IS AN AI WINZ CASE MANAGER!!!???”
No, no, no, what a second. I don’t think this is fully appreciated. It’s like really bad, bad. Bad.
Secondly, I believe that humans have a fundamental right to have a say in how their own society is being governed, not because it’s a system that has to always always always make the best decisions, I’ll have to say no to that. Even if AI is objectively best for the job, it’s still one person making unilateral decisions for everyone else. NZDF is pledged to always have a human making the final decision, and a lesser ministry like social welfare has no business smuggling in AI decision-making because it’s all too hard, and budget pressures are because of the big, bad Labour party. Bill English has already tried it, on the results were mixed.
If your goal is to cut the budget, that’s really easy to do, just don’t expect AI can maintain services the same as if National hadn’t taken a sledgehammer to Māori aspirations and the aspirations of women.
Thirdly, we and anyone else have absolutely no idea what that society would look like. I can´t tell you. With those parameters, the AI could be everything from a tyrant to a ruler that makes voting statistics from every major issue and follows those results, so I’m saying the results will be biased in a weird way, 100% AI decision-making way, to unfeeling, but most of all by its very nature it will be a nark.
Helen Clark was absolutely correct when she said 5eyes is best used quietly. No one should know it’s even there. Information gathering and networking aren’t something that politicians speak about publicly because people like Bomber will OIA the fuck out of it and everyone will be able to work backwards to figure out the secrete sauce its such a bad idea on so many levels I haven’t even gotten to the litigation the will 100% be fought over in the high court. It’ll make bullshit biased decisions depending on how hard Nicola Willis wants to grind her axe aginst the most vulnerable women in New Zealand and her track record so far to me means this AI case manager is ging to fuck over single mothers on welfare so hard, like just so badly hard the legal fraternity wont be able to stomach it. it’s going to be so bad but kind of in a good way…
Any AI is ultimately just a fancy product of human minds and human biases, no matter how many intermediary layers there are between said AI and the people ultimately responsible for creating it.
I wouldn’t mind AI having an advisory role for human leaders-preferably one programmed to conform to my personal priorities, preferences, and outright biases. But that’s as far as that goes.
Re: “the above solipsism: Let’s be real, we all would only want leaders and/or advisors who conform to our personal world views. Some of us are just honest about that.”
I mean of all the things that this Christopher Luxon lead National Party Government is shit at. This AI brain fart is going to be there cherry on a Sunday I have have solutley no debt that these AI WiNZE case managers are going to not only keep them in the courts for years but ruin the National Party as ever being in government, opposition or a major party. I might be wrong on a couple of those points, but so firm on AI winz case managers being a horrendously bad, bad, bad idea in a very real way.
Fran, Maori women aren’t “playing” the victim, they ARE the victim.
Just as Claudette Hauiti advocates for Maori wahine and Maori in general Fran, you advocate for business. This budget supports Farmers and Business and little else. Why? Fran can you tell us why Farmers and Business are playing the victims here? It’s clear where your loyalties lie if you believe this budget is about optimism Fran given the pay equity, Kiwisaver and the complete lack of support for 18 and 19year olds.
Fran was expecting to be attacked by Claudette ,she is so anti Maori .Fran cringed all the way through the blog because she hated sitting next to Claudette .How ever if Maori want people to understand they need to promote the great things Maori are achieving every day ,not high liteing the negatives that every anti Maori spout .The other thing there is no point in spouting on in Te Reo in that situation because the person you are trying to communicate with does not understand a single thing you are saying ,so straight away you have lost the argument .Barbara was calm and collected and straight to the point .
Fran cringed as if she was sitting on a wet fart, clearly she was given her attack on Maori.
I disagree it’s her right to speak in Māori but it needs to be followed up with a translation, which I think it was the first time and the last time it wasn’t but it seemed clear what she was saying. Fran’s cringing (could be called sneering) was highly performative and rude as well as totally unprofessional and appeared downright racist.
I disagree it’s her right to speak in Māori but it needs to be followed up with a translation, which I think it was the first time and the last time it wasn’t but it seemed clear what she was saying. Fran’s cringing (could be called sneering) was highly performative and rude as well as totally unprofessional and appeared downright racist.