I don’t see how this could possibly go wrong. If there’s one thing computers do well, it’s understand human behavior. Oh, wait, even HUMANS have a hard time understanding human behavior.
“In a new request for research proposals aimed at small businesses, the Pentagon says it wants technology that would “enable accurate forecasting of a given populations’ potential responses to military relevant events…”
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“…this tool would be ‘used to facilitate or to replicate wholly or in part many of the tasks that a human anthropological consultation would provide such as, counter-insurgency, reconstruction or support operations, allowing faster and more accurate development of social-cultural behaviors.’”
See, anthropologists, this is what happens when you get on your principled high horse and say you’re only going to study people and not help blow them up. You get replaced with a machine.
(Thanks, TJP!)
