DARPA's 'ECHO' Project: A Computer System That Declares You've Been 'Exposed' to a Biological or Chemical Threat—With No Physical Evidence
Posted by freedomforall 1 week, 4 days ago to Technology
Hmmm. Any chance of manipulation against enemies of those in power?
Censorship on steroids, anyone?
Excerpt:
"DARPA proposed accomplishing this by comparing purported changes inside the person’s own biology against a government-built reference library and algorithmically identifying both the alleged threat and when the exposure supposedly occurred.
Viewed alongside DARPA’s broader pandemic-era research portfolio, the proposal also raises a larger question explored by this publication’s In Silico Theory: as governments increasingly replace direct observation with computational models, reference libraries, and algorithmic determinations, where does objective evidence end and computer-generated conclusions begin?
It also raises an immediate practical question.
If an algorithm operating on a government-controlled reference library determines that someone was exposed to a dangerous biological or chemical threat without physical evidence, what meaningful mechanism exists for independently verifying—or successfully challenging—that determination?"
Censorship on steroids, anyone?
Excerpt:
"DARPA proposed accomplishing this by comparing purported changes inside the person’s own biology against a government-built reference library and algorithmically identifying both the alleged threat and when the exposure supposedly occurred.
Viewed alongside DARPA’s broader pandemic-era research portfolio, the proposal also raises a larger question explored by this publication’s In Silico Theory: as governments increasingly replace direct observation with computational models, reference libraries, and algorithmic determinations, where does objective evidence end and computer-generated conclusions begin?
It also raises an immediate practical question.
If an algorithm operating on a government-controlled reference library determines that someone was exposed to a dangerous biological or chemical threat without physical evidence, what meaningful mechanism exists for independently verifying—or successfully challenging—that determination?"
