#Automation

The UK Post Office prosecuted more than 900 subpostmasters on Horizon accounting data between 1999 and 2015. Fujitsu engineers could alter that data remotely, without the accused knowing. The Post Office swore to courts it couldn't — for fifteen years. Undoing it took a High Court judge, a mass-quashing Act of Parliament, a statutory inquiry, and a TV drama.

How automation exposure concentrated in the lower-skill tier and the developing world produces a population to manage — and why the control is the programmable rail the transfer runs on, not the transfer itself.

Automated detection accounts for over 90% of content actions. In 2021, Meta claimed AI proactively removed 97% of hate speech before anyone reported it.