An inquiry opened last week into a scandal that has horrified Britons: how hundreds of people running UK post offices were wrongly prosecuted for false accounting and theft on the basis of a faulty computer system. A judge has called the Post Office’s insistence that the software was infallible “the 21st-century equivalent of maintaining that the Earth is flat”. Yet many other companies are in danger of believing computers over humans as well.
上周,针对一起震惊英国的丑闻,有关部门启动了调查:为什么凭着一个有漏洞的计算机系统,英国各地邮局就有好几百号管理人员被错误地提起公诉?他们被控告做假帐、盗窃。一位法官将英国邮政局(Post Office)坚称该软件绝对可靠的说法称为“就像是在21世纪还坚持‘地球是平的’”。然而,其他许多公司也存在着“相信计算机更多于相信人类”的危险。
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