Re:Predicting Future Crimes - using AI
by stareatgoats on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:35AM
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The title is misleading - or at the least borderline disingenuous: it implies that an "AI algorithm" now can predict individual crimes, whereas the "algorithm" is only able to forecast number and types of some crimes on an aggregate level, in a sufficiently large area (a neighborhood). Which is a far cry from minority report, and essentially nothing new.
The findings about the skew between wealthy and poorer neighborhoods was interesting though, but not entirely surprising.
Re:Predicting Future Crimes - using AI
by hunglee2 on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:56AM
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when I read the headline I expected the news report to be from China but was surprised to read it referring to research from the US. If this 'AI Algorithm' does indeed have predictive value, you can see the temptation for governments to use it. In fact, you might argue that the government might have the obligation to do so - imagine if you could minority report a future mass shooter - you would have to do something surely? Thankfully we have democracy to protect us from state overreach
The findings about the skew between wealthy and poorer neighborhoods was interesting though, but not entirely surprising.
Probably need some lowpass filter too.
Is that the kind of crime that they're predicting here? What percentage of those are guys with prior convictions?
in one city, on historical data.
and as the good reverend bayes was so thrilled to show, 90% accurate can be unusably poor performance pretty easily.
we are already dealing with the latter irl, hopefully the former doesn't come to fruition.
To me, that's the biggest threat to the USA.