Mary Harrington on the Minority Report -esque technology being used in the UK | Unherd

> Sunak, a technocrat by disposition, perhaps hoped the public would perceive such a tool to be, as a non-human, less at risk of taint by the increasingly dour and partisan identity politics which have come to characterise Britain. If so, this project may be only the first of a new wave of political attempts at “neutral” buck-passing. That is, efforts to de-politicise intractably political issues, as a previous generation attempted with quangos, just this time using AI. And the response from Statewatch and the Guardian should give an early indicator of how well that’s going to work — which is to say, not at all.

Perhaps, eventually, Britain’s leaders will learn the hard way that political problems require political solutions. Unhappily, it seems we are still nowhere near that moment of realisation yet.