Futurology

Not quite minority report, pretty creepy tho

Phillip k Dick rolling in his grave

Instead of trying to go the Minority Report method of pre-crime, how about using the technology to warn people of their "about to be murdered" percentage and what they are doing to cause that percentage to increase.

If you could easily identity all the ruthless sociopaths, there would be some people who'd think that was a great hiring tool for their businesses.

Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’

The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.

Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.

The scheme was originally called the “homicide prediction project”, but its name has been changed to “sharing data to improve risk assessment”. The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it “chilling and dystopian”.

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