An inquiry opened last week into a scandal that has horrified Britons: how hundreds of people running UK post offices were wrongly prosecuted for false accounting and theft on the basis of a faulty computer system. A judge has called the Post Office’s insistence that the software was infallible “the 21st-century equivalent of maintaining that the Earth is flat”. Yet many other companies are in danger of believing computers over humans as well.
上周，針對一起震驚英國的丑聞，有關部門啟動了調查：為什么憑著一個有漏洞的計算機系統，英國各地郵局就有好幾百號管理人員被錯誤地提起公訴？他們被控告做假帳、盜竊。一位法官將英國郵政局(Post Office)堅稱該軟件絕對可靠的說法稱為“就像是在21世紀還堅持‘地球是平的’”。然而，其他許多公司也存在著“相信計算機更多于相信人類”的危險。
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