Minority Report Gets A Real Life Sequel

[mike_field]

The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’

www.theguardian.com

 

[The Fear]

Damn it, best go into hiding.

 

[Pangloss]

It's pretty basic stuff, they will create machine learning models to predict the probability of an individual committing a crime, using data on criminal history and anything else they have (medical records, employment history, information on current residence) as predictors.

There's nothing fancy about this. But what is alarming is the use of the data of innocent people who have not committed crimes. If you're on the police national computer then you are probably in scope for this. You can be on this if you simply report a crime. I find this entirely objectional.

 

[Stephen Jay Hawkings]

So what happens exactly, they arrest them for murder before they murder anyone?

Or they wait until the murder and go "See, we knew he'd murder someone"

The film was good though.

 

[mike_field]

It's pretty basic stuff, they will create machine learning models to predict the probability of an individual committing a crime, using data on criminal history and anything else they have (medical records, employment history, information on current residence) as predictors.

There's nothing fancy about this. But what is alarming is the use of the data of innocent people who have not committed crimes. If you're on the police national computer then you are probably in scope for this. You can be on this if you simply report a crime. I find this entirely objectional.

Reading around they are already doing it for probation reports etc anyway and have been for years, this is just a slightly bigger waste of money using AI 'improvements'.