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MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Tories must deliver on justice this time

There is a great hunger in this country for justice. Far too many of us have to watch as vandals, thugs and street gangs destroy the tranquillity and security of our neighbourhoods. If they are prosecuted, which is not often, the culprits frequently appear to get away with what they have done, facing minor penalties many months after their crimes.

So Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s suggestion that citizens will get a say in how transgressors are punished will be warmly welcomed by many.

One American judge, Michael Cicconetti of Painesville, Ohio, claimed a major reduction in reoffending after making his sentences fit the crime – for example a gun offender made to spend time in a morgue, a man who stole from the Salvation Army made to spend 24 hours living as a homeless person. It is certainly not impossible to make justice more fitting and more memorable.

And, as Mr Sunak says: ‘Dropping litter, fly-tipping and graffiti show an unacceptable lack of respect for everyone else in a community.’

The Prime Minister warned criminals that the community response ‘starts now’ as he introduces a crackdown on petty crime (pictured at PMQs)

Fines will be reinvested into clean-up and enforcement activity to offset some of the £732 million councils spent on litter and fly-tipping last year (file image)

He is also right to promise that ‘women and girls should feel safe walking home at night. Parents should feel able to let their children play without fear. Everyone should be able to feel pride in the area they call home.’

What he calls ‘immediate justice’, requiring offenders to clear up the mess they have made while wearing high-visibility jumpsuits, will undoubtedly be popular.

But he will need to fill in the details as soon as possible. There have been many promises made that the criminal justice system in this country will be fixed, and will be more responsive to the needs and demands of the people.

But in recent years the simple task of providing a visible and effective police force has proved too much for the authorities in many parts of the country. Please don’t raise our hopes unless you mean it this time.

If chatbots are tilting Left, has AI revolution gone too far? 

Is the internet Left-wing? Certainly many conservatives have recently begun thinking it is so. Searches using Google seem more likely to call up articles from Leftish publications than from conservative ones.

Wikipedia, more often than not, is Wokipedia, leaning heavily to the Left if not actually totally committed, though this of course has a lot to do with the sort of people who edit its entries – young urban radicals, for the most part.

During the Covid crisis, many Right-wingers found that mysterious algorithms seemed to be interfering with their ability to reach large audiences. The disturbing term ‘shadow banning’ came into use to describe an elusive, hard-to-define process by which certain opinions became less visible. And a brief look at the big Silicon Valley institutions suggests that they are in general havens of radical thought and opinions.

Google's new AI Bard said it believed the UK would have been better off remaining in the EU

Google’s new AI Bard said it believed the UK would have been better off remaining in the EU 

But The Mail on Sunday now has evidence of what looks very much like open bias on the part of Google’s new artificial intelligence ‘Chatbot’, known as Google Bard. It appears to be tilted dramatically towards the Left. 

It thinks Brexit was a bad idea. It has a very soft spot for former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. It is critical of the Tory Party but struggles to find a bad word to say about Sir Keir Starmer’s front bench. If encouraged, it gets more radical. This is in sharp contrast with its Microsoft rival Chat GPT, which coyly avoided giving controversial answers despite sustained efforts to tempt it into doing so.

The strangest aspect of all this is that, as one expert explained, even the people who make this technology do not really know how it works. Perhaps that is the most frightening possibility of all – that if artificial intelligence finally develops the ability to think entirely for itself, it will turn out to have the opinions of a Corbynite 17-year-old who thinks she knows everything, and is also probably listening to us in our homes all the time. Perhaps the computer revolution has gone too far.


MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Tories must deliver on justice this time

There is a great hunger in this country for justice. Far too many of us have to watch as vandals, thugs and street gangs destroy the tranquillity and security of our neighbourhoods. If they are prosecuted, which is not often, the culprits frequently appear to get away with what they have done, facing minor penalties many months after their crimes.

So Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s suggestion that citizens will get a say in how transgressors are punished will be warmly welcomed by many.

One American judge, Michael Cicconetti of Painesville, Ohio, claimed a major reduction in reoffending after making his sentences fit the crime – for example a gun offender made to spend time in a morgue, a man who stole from the Salvation Army made to spend 24 hours living as a homeless person. It is certainly not impossible to make justice more fitting and more memorable.

And, as Mr Sunak says: ‘Dropping litter, fly-tipping and graffiti show an unacceptable lack of respect for everyone else in a community.’

The Prime Minister warned criminals that the community response 'starts now' as he introduces a crackdown on petty crime (pictured at PMQs)

The Prime Minister warned criminals that the community response ‘starts now’ as he introduces a crackdown on petty crime (pictured at PMQs)

Fines will be reinvested into clean-up and enforcement activity to offset some of the £732 million councils spent on litter and fly-tipping last year (file image)

He is also right to promise that ‘women and girls should feel safe walking home at night. Parents should feel able to let their children play without fear. Everyone should be able to feel pride in the area they call home.’

What he calls ‘immediate justice’, requiring offenders to clear up the mess they have made while wearing high-visibility jumpsuits, will undoubtedly be popular.

But he will need to fill in the details as soon as possible. There have been many promises made that the criminal justice system in this country will be fixed, and will be more responsive to the needs and demands of the people.

But in recent years the simple task of providing a visible and effective police force has proved too much for the authorities in many parts of the country. Please don’t raise our hopes unless you mean it this time.

If chatbots are tilting Left, has AI revolution gone too far? 

Is the internet Left-wing? Certainly many conservatives have recently begun thinking it is so. Searches using Google seem more likely to call up articles from Leftish publications than from conservative ones.

Wikipedia, more often than not, is Wokipedia, leaning heavily to the Left if not actually totally committed, though this of course has a lot to do with the sort of people who edit its entries – young urban radicals, for the most part.

During the Covid crisis, many Right-wingers found that mysterious algorithms seemed to be interfering with their ability to reach large audiences. The disturbing term ‘shadow banning’ came into use to describe an elusive, hard-to-define process by which certain opinions became less visible. And a brief look at the big Silicon Valley institutions suggests that they are in general havens of radical thought and opinions.

Google's new AI Bard said it believed the UK would have been better off remaining in the EU

Google’s new AI Bard said it believed the UK would have been better off remaining in the EU 

But The Mail on Sunday now has evidence of what looks very much like open bias on the part of Google’s new artificial intelligence ‘Chatbot’, known as Google Bard. It appears to be tilted dramatically towards the Left. 

It thinks Brexit was a bad idea. It has a very soft spot for former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. It is critical of the Tory Party but struggles to find a bad word to say about Sir Keir Starmer’s front bench. If encouraged, it gets more radical. This is in sharp contrast with its Microsoft rival Chat GPT, which coyly avoided giving controversial answers despite sustained efforts to tempt it into doing so.

The strangest aspect of all this is that, as one expert explained, even the people who make this technology do not really know how it works. Perhaps that is the most frightening possibility of all – that if artificial intelligence finally develops the ability to think entirely for itself, it will turn out to have the opinions of a Corbynite 17-year-old who thinks she knows everything, and is also probably listening to us in our homes all the time. Perhaps the computer revolution has gone too far.

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