I don’t know how should I feel about this, considering the current political climate in the UK.
1984 Here we come. The Thoughtpolice have arrived.
Submitted 3 days ago by Pro@reddthat.com to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ai-to-help-police-catch-criminals-before-they-strike
I don’t know how should I feel about this, considering the current political climate in the UK.
I’ve seen this film…
Before they strike. So not criminals but folks thinking about crime.
Someone is going to have a greater time fighting that in a court. And the tax payers will end up paying for such dumb ideas.
This will be fine. After all, a government that understands technology so well it implemented the genius tech regulations in the OSA coupled with a Police force with officers so intelligent they never get the law wrong or have a growing reputation for violence against women can easily be trusted to not take the UK down a dystopian path where the non-white and/or poor and/or disabled will be targetted simply by living in an area where a crime once happened.
Inspector Inigo Montoya will likely find no shortage of six-fingered men, I suspect. The sooner this AI bubble bursts, the better.
This sounds like fairly normal machine learning models, not “advanced AI”.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 days ago
Oh yes, “predictive policing”. I guess somebody haven’t read Phillip K. Dick’s The Minority Report, or thought it was an implementation guide rather than a cautionary tale.