The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.
Reminder to watch Minority Report again… I don’t even remember whether that movie was any good or not
Can’t believe that movie is looking to become a reality in my lifetime.
It’s great!
Is Tom Cruise going to run the program?
Call it Minority Report
Because they will inevitably target minorities?
Niooce.
Because of the early 2000’s movie Minority Report that has this exact same plot and is starred by Tom Cruise.
I feel it’s time for a remake, maybe turn the three
sistersprecogs into 3 AI computers?maybe turn the three sisters
Two of the three precogs were boys, by the way.
I definitely need to rewatch this movie again.
It’s just institutional racism with extra steps
Hey, remember when pre-musk twitter had to turn off their extremism automod for republican politicians because they were constantly spewing the same patterns of extremist content that actual ISIS-supporting accounts were?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I’m not superstitious, but I’m starting to think that the 30s are cursed, the closer we get to them the worse Europe gets.
Yeah, can’t say that I disagree
570 recorded homicides between March 2023 and 2024.
Data on “hundreds of thousands” of people can’t provide the distinguishing markers to even have a stab at this.
It can reliably predict when people are black, though.
It can predict blackness with up to 63% accuracy!
Is 63% significant?
If I was clever I might have said 60%
Because 3/5
Eh that’s more of a US thing
1/e is about 37%, maybe 1-1/e?
a stab
I see what you did there 😄
And it will say people of lower economic classes and foreign origin are the biggest risk. Will action be taken to help these people? Nah. This is just going to be a technological excuse for some good ol’ repression.
Precrime is here!
Precrime will be here!
Precrime will have had been here?
Precrime was here!
Postcrime will be there?
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Precrime wioll haven be here.
Perhaps this is all just highly refined British humour?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
As a data engineer:
Number of subreddits banned from?..site wide, that’s a lot of subreddits lol.
Didn’t they try this in Florida and it basically became officers harassing the fuck out of a teenage kid and his mom at all hours of the night?
E: yeah, fuck this shit.
Oh boy! …Here we go, dropping a new Dystopia again!
So… What happens when it is wrong?
We find out the guy running the tool has been manipulating it and is the murderer.
Touché, indeed.
No it is never wrong, just super early. Just arrest people at 18 for crime they will do at 60 obviously.
Great—let’s test it on politicians and law enforcement first.
US LEO are the real ones. In UK+EU they really aren’t murderous villains, many don’t even carry a gun.
And politicians don’t murder, they just fleece us.
And politicians don’t murder,
I beg to differ.
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeahSimilar message, very different song:
Why don’t presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?
Why don’t presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor? Why do they always send the poor?
Why they always send the poor?
It’s the minority report wtf
hey lets feed the guessing machine crime data generated from policing by a bunch of racist ass cops. No way will the resulting “predictions” be racist
at first i thought your suggestion was to feed the machine racist cops to find them and got all hyped ):
Be ready to go to jail for shit you never did, and then be forced to watch the thing you never did for your entire sentence. What do you think you’ll do when you are released?
You’re assuming they’ll ever release you.
“I’m sorry; we predicted that, if we were to release you now, you’ll murder someone.”
That’s actually the idea. It’s not general precrime, it’s a decision support tool for predicting recidivism when deciding parole cases.
That doesn’t mean it’s not on decidedly shonky ground statistically speaking.
This will only dehumanize and discriminate people that enjoy drugs or have been kicked down by society. It will never catch the people that are actual killers. The only ones that can be predicted are those kids in gangs with their machetes. But those are all a risk already.
I wonder if it will flag a lack of social care by the government as possible factor. Lmao.
Is it gonna be a list of all the police and military?
No silly, not after they input race.
