Predictive Policing

[davidbfpo]

Predictive policing is getting rather than more media coverage in the UK, just why and now is unclear.

Much of the criticism concerns the use of AI in decision-making, even down to "hot spots" where police activity should concentrate. Ethics has also become an issue, with some ethicists now sitting on advisory groups and others "throwing stones from outside".

Today The Guardian has an editorial, sub-titled:

Machines can make human misjudgments very much worse. And should never be trusted with criminal justice

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/04/the-guardian-view-on-and-algorithms-big-data-makes-bigger-problems?
This highlights the civil liberties group Liberty have just issued a critical report:https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.u...inatory-data-0

The BBC News had a short item yesterday and this referred to a critical local report which I had missed:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47118229 and https://www.turing.ac.uk/sites/defau...ort_to_wmp.pdf

[davidbfpo]

Two articles, the first I missed is quite lengthy and very critical.
Link:https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...icing-software

The second makes available the FOI documents gathered for the first article.
Link:https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...ing-in-america

[davidbfpo]

See:https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...405-story.html