"Details of the algorithm and the list were initially kept secret, but when the list was finally released, it turned out that 56 per cent of Black men in the city aged between 20 to 29 featured on it."
So it is Minority Report... Literally.
> Previous efforts to use AIs to predict crime have been controversial because they can perpetuate racial bias. In recent years, Chicago Police Department has trialled an algorithm that created a list of people deemed most at risk of being involved in a shooting, either as a victim or as a perpetrator. Details of the algorithm and the list were initially kept secret, but when the list was finally released, it turned out that 56 per cent of Black men in the city aged between 20 to 29 featured on it
«Previous efforts», «In recent years, Chicago Police Department has trialled an algorithm that created a list of people». The work of Chattopadhyay is meant to reduce the bias and to avoid outputting names but just places.
RTFA...
> Chattopadhyay concedes that the data used by his model will also be biased, but says that efforts have been taken to reduce the effect of bias and the AI doesn’t identify suspects, only potential sites of crime. “It’s not Minority Report” he says