If you coordinate with enough people, you could influence consumer trends. If you combine that with blockchain technology, you have a Decentralised Autonomous Community (DAC). A DAC develops group purchasing strategies. A DAC promoting plastic-free packaging would poll its members for a product they’d like to promote on Amazon and order for all its members at once. A sudden influx of purchases for a product would alert Amazon’s algorithm and promote it to other shoppers. With more purchases, companies would see this as a trend and use plastic-free packaging more. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
