This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals
Assessing risk for future crimes has already been going on...it' not science fiction.
Richard Berk says his algorithms take the bias out of criminal justice. But could they make it worse?
Did you know this was going on...I didn't.
Richard Berk says his algorithms take the bias out of criminal justice. But could they make it worse?
Did you know this was going on...I didn't.
We already have PC and an evil hag's planned persecution of man-made climate change deniers included in the Democratic Party platform.
Ruler elites shall always appreciate courtesy of high tech better sharpened tools to more efficiently weed out troublemakers in order to convert people into sheeple.
Just troublemakers? Why not also potential troublemakers?
It feels like putting my fate into the hands of a foreign judge. No matter how fair, it eliminates the ability to debate any decision or characterization made by a machine.
I am bothered by statistical models such as this as well as those in climate research. At least in climate models the results have weasel words like 'might' or 'could' in statistical predictions. Here the weasel word is replaced by 'will' as though the model can actually predict future behavior of an individual. It is like bringing the 'Person of Interest' TV show into reality.
I would ask what was the crime and what does the law prescribe for that crime. Do the time and be over with it. No brainwashing during or after the sentence should be legal. Those who don't like liberty will continue to be re-imprisoned until their liberty is used up. Don't need a lot of social engineers getting paid from taxes in the mix. Let them get real jobs or die out.
Making profiling better through the use of computerized analysis can be a great tool in crime prevention, if done right. If misused to target specific individuals for their political views, it becomes a Gestapo-like persecution net, and that's the inherent danger.
We've already seen how government can use monitoring elements like the IRS to persecute opponents. One can readily see what great harm can be inflicted if profiling is expanded beyond the population of known criminals.
There's a temptation to use profiling to head off possible terrorist events, focusing on immigrants from suspect countries of origin, or members of certain notorious Mosques who have yet to commit a crime. If done, it should be a human profiling operation, not computerized.
Best thing if you want to commit crimes is to SHUTUP and just do it quietly without telling anyone.
Plan ahead for a long enough time where they cant easily connect the dots (as they say). The latest group of terrorists are doing just this.
This is really politically incorrect, but I think in a number of cases the police have been too quick on the trigger, have made assumptions based on the people who typically violate laws, and are empowered to enforce victimless laws (like anti drug laws, basic non injury traffic laws, and others) and do so with lethal force. The system has asked for people to rise up against these things, and invite the less stable ones to engage in random violence against the police.
I think, after readingt that the assumption of the algorithms turned out to be racist was incorrect, the data was honest.The data was based on statistics of individuals that had committed crimes, went to jail and committed crimes again and again...seems to me that the data was honest, it was based upon the individuals past behavior...I am sure if an "AH HA" moment had occured the judge would of taken that in consideration. Well, maybe these days that is not a consideration.
It's still scary that someone would even try it and it seems to me that a conscious, honest human Mind...could make that assessment without a computerized algorithm.