Oh. My. God.
Put aside the nakedly dystopian nature of this.
If it were done—and can’t imagine it will—it COMPLETELY GETS THINGS WRONG.
The trauma of being a victim is often a major CAUSE of future OFFENDING.
And this program aims to TRAUMATIZE MORE!
oh my god now there's a "future of prison" startup that says it will use AI and brain implants to plant fake memories into the brains of criminals, "rehabilitating" them in minutes instead of years and I am going to spend the rest of the day screaming now
sciencetimes.com/articles/509...
Also, that anyone would propose this as anything other than a prank is gross. (But it did make me think of Demolition Man, Total Recall, and A Clockwork Orange, in order that I remembered them, and also how ashamed I was to remember them!)