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Minority Report: UK Government Developing 'Murder Prediction' Program
• Zero HedgeAuthored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
The idea is the literal plot line of Philip K. Dick's dystopian story 'Minority Report,' where individuals are arrested before they are able to commit crimes thanks to a 'precrime' predictive policing system.
It's the exact same thing, minus the mutant human precogs. In reality the program will be much more boring, using 'algorithms' to churn through data and spit out results.
Given that the data will presumably include spicy social media posts, which are now being punished with prison sentences in the UK, you can see where this is going.
UK: The UK is now testing software designed to predict whether someone might become a future killer. Drawing on vast troves of government data, this "homicide prediction" project builds individual risk profiles, turning bureaucratic files into digital crystal balls. It's Minority… pic.twitter.com/bVF1n74GD1
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