Getting ahead of ourselves, and our crimes

How can we mitigate the potential risks to privacy and choice arising from AI and pre-crime tech?

Sat, Mar 14, 2020 - 5:50 AM

AI is all about learning behavioural patterns from data and examining whether these patterns have value, such as the likelihood of an individual committing a crime.

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ADVANCEMENTS in artificial intelligence (AI) combined with increasing availability of behavioural data has made pre-crime a possibility. This is the ability to predict a future threat or non-compliance event. You may recall the movie Minority Report - today, pre-crime is no longer relegated to a...