Woof, that was a sad one to read – AI prisons aren’t scifi anymore – one guy actually wants to build the ultimate punishment. Of course, the United States has the highest incarceration rate among NATO countries. That’s right, the land of the free and home of the brave has more people behind bars than any other developed nation. And to top it off, a molecular biologist named Hashem Al-Ghaili has proposed a virtual prison system called Cognify where prisoners would be subjected to artificial memories in a virtual environment.

An interesting thing about this is that Al-Ghaili seems to think this is a genius solution to our overcrowded prison problem. Who needs actual prisons when we can just mess with people’s brains and DNA to create fake memories? It’s like he’s playing a game of Sims with real human lives.

But the thing that gets me about this is the complete disregard for ethical implications and potential long-term effects on mental health. Sure, let’s just mess with people’s brains and emotions, because as long as our incarceration rates go down, who cares about the well-being of prisoners, right?

We deserve better science and technology focus; good enough isn’t good enough. Instead of dumbing things down to make everyone happy, we should be prioritizing ethical considerations and potential consequences before implementing such drastic measures.

And let’s not forget the absurdity of using mice as evidence for how this virtual prison system could work. I mean, sure, mice and humans have similar broken strands of DNA, so why not use them as test subjects for human behavior? Because clearly, rodents are the perfect representation of human behavior, right?

So yeah, AI prisons aren’t scifi anymore. Tough to swallow, but we need to get ahead of the curve. In all seriousness, the proposal of Cognify is like something out of a Black Mirror episode. It’s a dystopian nightmare that we should not be taking lightly. Let’s focus on real solutions that prioritize rehabilitation and restorative justice instead of playing God with people’s minds. After all, we are supposed to be a civilized society, not a science experiment.