UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence

Re:UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on ... by dgroshev on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:44PM (#48613260)

Thankfully, we do have laws that change with the times over here in the UK. Just a couple months ago we had a constitutional change (abolishment of hereditary peers) and that was just another Thursday. It's fine, we don't need to rely on deliberately inefficient police force.

Substituting political process and laws changing with the times with political nihilism and fetishisation of old norms (indeed, see 2A; also see a paramilitary executing political opponents and how 2A influenced that) is how one ends up with a broken state.

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Re:UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on ... by iLoveOncall on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:24PM (#48614016)

There are tens of thousands of laws in the UK. How many are reviewed how often? The extreme majority never is, by design. Technology enables an expansion of the power of the law without actual changes to those laws.

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Re:UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on ... by dgroshev on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:50PM (#48614243)

Laws are "reviewed" by courts, and in the UK newer laws automatically supersede older laws if there are any contradictions (with minor nuances as per Thoburn v Sunderland City Council). There's no need for the mechanism that you seem to have in mind (never mind that it doesn't work like that), we can and do change laws.

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Re:UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on ... by iLoveOncall on Sunday June 21, 2026 @05:12AM (#48617072)

Laws aren't reviewed by courts at all. They're at best interpreted.

> There's no need for the mechanism that you seem to have in mind

Sure. In the meantime it's illegal to be drunk in a pub: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/35-36/94#commentar...

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