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UK School Used AI to Purge 200 Library Books Including Orwell's 1984 — Librarian Branded 'Safeguarding Risk' and Forced Out
An Index on Censorship investigation revealed a secondary school in Greater Manchester used AI to generate justifications for removing nearly 200 books from its library, including 1984, Twilight, and Michelle Obama's Becoming. The AI flagged 1984 for 'themes of torture, violence, sexual coercion.' The school's librarian was subjected to a safeguarding investigation and ultimately resigned. The irony of using AI to censor Orwell's surveillance dystopia is not lost on the 48-point, 12-comment HN thread.
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