mo4ch:>‘Minority Report’ now a reality? UK police to use AI in war on ‘pre-crime’ | Mo4ch News

UK police are touting artificial intelligence as a solution to the problems of modern law enforcement, reassuring naysayers that the use of “pre-crime” algorithms will be restricted to offering “counseling” to likely offenders.Suggesting that budget cuts have rendered mere human police incapable of doing their jobs without cybernetic help, project lead Iain Donnelly claims working with an AI system will allow the force to do more with less. He insists that the National Data Analytics Solution, as it’s called, will target only those individuals already known to have criminal tendencies, sniffing out likely offenders to divert them with therapeutic “interventions,” including individuals who are stopped and searched but never arrested or charged.Read more Donnelly claims the program is not designed to “pre-emptively arrest” anyone, but to provide “support from local health or social workers,” giving the example of an individual with a history of mental health problems being flagged as a l…