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.

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    Reminder to watch Minority Report again… I don’t even remember whether that movie was any good or not

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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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.

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    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.

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    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

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      at first i thought your suggestion was to feed the machine racist cops to find them and got all hyped ):

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    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.

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    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?

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        “I’m sorry; we predicted that, if we were to release you now, you’ll murder someone.”

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          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.

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    Why are they rebooting “Minority Report?” The Tom Cruise version was excellent, we don’t need a new one.