UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

Is this turning into minority report in real life?

Data scientist here; there simply are not enough murders to model this, so they will need to use proxies for “likely” murderers (like any sort of violent crime). That means the model will very strongly target people who are over-policed (minorities) and those more likely to actually get caught and charged for things, and thus be in the training data set (poor people). It will also fail spectacularly for this purpose because even a highly accurate model will produce almost 100% false positives -again, because actual murders are so vanishingly rare. The math just doesn’t work.

Welcome to our over-securitized late stage capitalist hellscape. All so companies can push out these bogus 'tools' and eat more of the state budget and profit like the crony capitalists they are. Not the first time. First as a tragedy, second as a farce.

Let me guess: Palantir

Major black mirror vibes

Will this drive the first wrongfully accused person to suicide or will it just somehow, magically, target all brown and black people? Stay tuned to see how much taxpayer money gets sunk into this tool.

Prediction: this gets used to surveil dissidents and minorities disproportionately.

Yay, concentration camps. My list of countries to live in is consistently getting smaller.

Will the British cabinet be automatically included on the list?

There's no possible way this could go badly.

Just visit congress.gov and you have your list.

So are they going to enforce ICC warrants?

Does it identify people like Kid Starver who are murdering the disabled on an industrial scale?

I hope many of their politicians get placed high on the list.

Is it April fools? please still be April's fools, checks calendar, dammit, not April's fools still. It's actually news.

I watch enough true crime to know that anyone is capable of murder

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