> It is an AI error, but also an error on the part of the cops, the prosecutors, the judge, and the county sheriff

Yes, it's critical to remember that multiple parties can be at fault. In a case like this, it is true that

a) law enforcement misused a tool and demonstrated extreme negligence

b) the judiciary didn't catch this, which suggests systemic negligence there too when it comes to their oversight responsibilities

c) the company selling/providing this AI tool should have known it was likely to be misused and is responsible for damages caused by such predictable usage

We cannot have a just world until our laws and norms result in loss of jobs and legitimacy as punishment for this sort of normalized failure, from all three parties. Immunity is a failed experiment.

Even if she was a read ringer (clearly not the same person to any human who glances at the image), common sense should tell you that among 340,000,000 Americans there are a lot of lookalikes. Clearly there's a kind of stupid belief in the mystic powers of an AI and a callous disregard for the well being of suspects. No one should be dragged 1000 miles and held for months based on a facial match, especially when exculpatory evidence was easily available.

This x1000. We need to suspend this shared fiction that AI has any agency. Only humans can be responsible. Full stop.