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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. (www.statewatch.org)
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The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

"I'm sorry; we predicted that, if we were to release you now, you'll murder someone."

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's actually the idea. It's not general precrime, it's a decision support tool for predicting recidivism when deciding parole cases.

That doesn't mean it's not on decidedly shonky ground statistically speaking.