UK government developing homicide prediction algorithm to identify potential violent offenders

There have been several stories over the years about different governments creating crime-predicting algorithms, leading to comparisons to the 2002 movie Minority Report – even though that film involved clairvoyant humans. The UK government is the latest to come under the spotlight for working on this technology, but officials insist it is only a research project – at least for now.

The UK government's program, originally called the "homicide prediction project," works by using algorithms to analyze the information of hundreds of thousands of people, including victims of crime, in the hope of identifying those most likely to commit serious violent offences, writes The Guardian.

Civil liberties group Statewatch uncovered the project through the Freedom of Information Act. It claimed that the tool was developed using data from between 100,000 and 500,000 people. Statewatch says the group includes not only those with criminal convictions, but also victims of crime, though officials deny this is the case, claiming it only uses existing data from convicted offenders.

The data included names, dates of birth, gender, ethnicity, and a number that identifies people on the police national computer. It also covers sensitive information such as mental health, addiction, suicide and vulnerability, self-harm, and disabilities.

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UK government developing homicide prediction algorithm to identify potential violent offenders

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[1LoverofGod]

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

Those predicted to commit murder(s) will then be deemed guilty of committing a crime before a crime has even been committed, so locked up and maybe even executed, to prevent the crime and so protect the alleged victim(s) and society, when no victim exists.

What could possibly go wrong . . .





Bet those showing up in the algorithm, even a tiny little bit, will take a huge hit on their social credit score, leading to denial of mortgages, leases, credit, employment, etc., etc., etc.

Wonder how long until military and/or law enforcement service, PTSD, other mental illnesses, Christian faith, etc. are added to the algorithm (quite possibly by AI)

 

[mattfivefour]

Does any of the above seem familiar to anyone? Do you recall the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report which was about a society where (to quote a synopsis) "the government utilizes a system called 'Precrime' to predict and prevent future crimes. The system relies on clairvoyant individuals called "Pre-Cogs" to foresee crimes, and then arrests individuals before they commit them."

In 1954 when Philip Dick wrote the novel on which the movie was based, nobody could have imagined computers and AI, so he pictured people with precognitive abilities. Now 71 years later, in real life, it appears the government is not intending to rely on unreliable humans but supposedly reliable AI.

Once again science fiction is becoming fact.

 

[Margery]

A brave new world we are living in! NOT!

This is dreadful but predictive crime prevention and thought crimes have been coming for years.

Already here when people who silently pray across from abortion clinics are being arrested for praying in public- silently. No audible sounds of prayer even. just in their heads and hearts.

 

[1LoverofGod]

Does any of the above seem familiar to anyone? Do you recall the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report which was about a society where (to quote a synopsis) "the government utilizes a system called 'Precrime' to predict and prevent future crimes. The system relies on clairvoyant individuals called "Pre-Cogs" to foresee crimes, and then arrests individuals before they commit them."

In 1954 when Philip Dick wrote the novel on which the movie was based, nobody could have imagined computers and AI, so he pictured people with precognitive abilities. Now 71 years later, in real life, it appears the government is not intending to rely on unreliable humans but supposedly reliable AI.

Once again science fiction is becoming fact.

When something "fictitious" comes out, and then later it's a reality, there's a name for it
Predictive programming.

I think the Simpsons is known for those coincidences.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

When something "fictitious" comes out, and then later it's a reality, there's a name for it
Predictive programming.

I think the Simpsons is known for those coincidences.

LOL Simpsons had an episode on the rapture too !!

 

[1LoverofGod]

LOL Simpsons had an episode on the rapture too !!

I heard about that one

 

[1LoverofGod]

LOL Simpsons had an episode on the rapture too !!

What was interesting was an episode of the Simpsons about Trump running for President. This episode ran in the year 2000.

In that episode it had Trump coming down the escalator at Trump Tower after announcing he was running for President, and the day Trump did make his public announcement that he was entering the Presidential race for the 2016 elections the media got him on video coming down the escalator at Trump Tower just like in the Simpsons episode in 2000, 16 years before he ran for President.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Does any of the above seem familiar to anyone? Do you recall the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report which was about a society where (to quote a synopsis) "the government utilizes a system called 'Precrime' to predict and prevent future crimes. The system relies on clairvoyant individuals called "Pre-Cogs" to foresee crimes, and then arrests individuals before they commit them."

In 1954 when Philip Dick wrote the novel on which the movie was based, nobody could have imagined computers and AI, so he pictured people with precognitive abilities. Now 71 years later, in real life, it appears the government is not intending to rely on unreliable humans but supposedly reliable AI.

Once again science fiction is becoming fact.

A brave new world we are living in! NOT!

This is dreadful but predictive crime prevention and thought crimes have been coming for years.

Already here when people who silently pray across from abortion clinics are being arrested for praying in public- silently. No audible sounds of prayer even. just in their heads and hearts.

Law enforcement uses crime reporting, mapping, modeling tools, and theories to predict where and when crime is likely to occur, based on locations of facilities and businesses, time of day, and past crime. Good, until deployment of LE resources to prevent said crime disrupts and distributes the crime elsewhere and elsewhen (aka crime dispersal)

 

[TCC]

Does any of the above seem familiar to anyone? Do you recall the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report which was about a society where (to quote a synopsis) "the government utilizes a system called 'Precrime' to predict and prevent future crimes. The system relies on clairvoyant individuals called "Pre-Cogs" to foresee crimes, and then arrests individuals before they commit them."

In 1954 when Philip Dick wrote the novel on which the movie was based, nobody could have imagined computers and AI, so he pictured people with precognitive abilities. Now 71 years later, in real life, it appears the government is not intending to rely on unreliable humans but supposedly reliable AI.

Once again science fiction is becoming fact.

Yes I was thinking of that movie too. We are now living in comic book & science-fiction reality. Next stop is for a astro-physicist to come and tell us that we have some how shifted into an alternative universe where "in the world history" Christ did not rise from the dead. Pretty freaky times.