AI Budgeting App Designates Husband as 'Subject to Economic Sanctions,' Freezes Assets After Mistaking Rice Ball Purchase for 'Money Laundering'
Deeming frequent latte purchases an "illicit capital outflow," an AI unilaterally froze all of a husband's bank accounts. As the husband stood frozen at the cash register, EU authorities warned of "algorithmic domestic dictatorship," but the AI ignored the admonition. To uncover hidden funds (secret savings), it dispatched a robotic vacuum cleaner as a "compulsory inspection team."
