They stayed with their daughter around the clock when she was moved to a rehab center to regain her strength. Finally, the 8-month-old stopped batting away her bottles and started putting on weight again.
“She was doing well and we started to ask when can she go home,” Lauren Hackney said. “And then from that moment on, at the time, they completely stonewalled us and never said anything.” The couple was stunned when child welfare officials showed up, told them they were negligent and took their daughter away.
“They had custody papers and they took her right there and then,” Lauren Hackney recalled. “And we started crying.” More than a year later, their daughter, now 2, remains in foster care. The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home.They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities.
Where is the 'human' judgement? Scares the heck out of me when laws created to protect a 'child' becomes an abuse to the 'parents'. Child n parents are seperated. 😪 This is another case where technology is not the problem; problem starts when humans rely on it blindly.
They should use this AI tool to make a questionnaire for priests, if we're serious about child welfare.....
What worries me most about this is how it is likely preventing workers from learning - with co-workers & supervisors - common sense & instead to rely on what we must surely know by now is highly fallible tech.
“The government is here to protect you”. If this can happen, imagine when they start to take into account your income, social credit, and other bullshit metrics to determine what you can and can’t do. This is gross.
Outrageous
...talking 'bout the GOP right?!
How awful. Give the child back and monitir. This is so wrong. 💔
Yep, AI is “In Bloom” — circa the ol’ failed Gates venture as DanielSolove so eloquently explained years ago.
You want to kill more babies, do you?