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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
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Philip K Dick: "Imagine a horrible dystopia where the state uses magical psychics that are almost always right to stop crime. That would suck and be bad even for you, an eager collaborator and true believer in that system, because they could be wrong about you too."
The UK: "Oi chatgpt get yer robot calipers out and tell me if 'e's got a loicence for that telly?"
It's funny because the precog system is clearly correct almost fucking ALL THE TIME. But because it can be wrong once, it's evil.
But they're gonna defend the shit out of these AI solutions despite being totally untrustworthy and wrong nearly half the time.
All this will do is reproduce racial profiling, except because it's performed by an AI it's ok because a human didn't do it. "My computer told me to stop and search you".
Idk why they think algorithms trained on human bias wouldn't have the same bias.
The algorithms having the same bias is the positive to them.
They get to do the racism but they also get to blame something that isn't themselves. Something that can not be fired and is not accountable to anyone.
Yeah, that's UK after all
It will 100% be implemented elsewhere too. American cops deporting people? "Sorry the machine says you gotta go, so sayeth the machine, not me, i'm just following the machine's orders"
Authority will love this shit. They become completely unaccountable. The nebulous AI decides all.