Tag: China and crime prediction algorithms

Cyborg hologram watching a subway interior 3D rendering

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
July 19, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Censorship, China, Surveillance

Tagged
China and crime prediction algorithms, China and mind-reading algorithms, Crime prediction algorithms, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Featured, Freedom of the press and Constitution, George Orwell on total surveillance, Good Wife (TV series), James Clapper, Mind-reading algorithms, National Security Agency (NSA), Social credit scores, Surveillance and liberal democracy, Telescreen and modern equivalents}

Big Brother Is Watching You (And Trying to Read Your Mind)

_{Chinese researchers now claim to have developed technology that can read our minds} _{Gary Smith

July 19, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Censorship, China, Surveillance}

One of the most popular story lines in the widely acclaimed television show The Good Wife (2009–2016) is when National Security Agency (NSA) techies entertain themselves by eavesdropping on the heroine’s personal life. It clearly resonated with viewers and reinforced the fears of many that the NSA might be listening to their conversations. Indeed, they might be. In 2013 James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, was asked by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden about whether NSA collects “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans.” Clapper answered, under oath, “No sir, not wittingly.” Clapper had been informed the day before that he would be asked this question and he was offered an opportunity the day Read More ›

policewoman holding arrested young woman while her partner talking on portable radio

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
July 6, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Crime, Probability

Tagged
AI and crime prediction claims, Algorithms in criminology, China and crime prediction algorithms, Featured, Minority Report (film), Richard Berk, University of Chicago (AI predicts crime claim)}

Can AI Really Predict Crime a Week in Advance? That’s the Claim.

_{University of Chicago data scientists claim 90% accuracy for their algorithm using past data — but it’s hard to evaluate} _{Gary Smith

July 6, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Crime, Probability}

The University of Chicago recently announced to great fanfare that, Data and social scientists from the University of Chicago have developed a new algorithm that forecasts crime by learning patterns in time and geographic locations from public data on violent and property crimes. The model can predict future crimes one week in advance with about 90% accuracy. University of Chicago Medical Center, “Algorithm Predicts Crime a Week in Advance, but Reveals Bias in Police Response” at Newswise (June 28, 2022) Many thought immediately of the 2002 movie Minority Report, in which three psychics (“precogs”) visualize murders before they occur, thereby allowing special PreCrime police to arrest would-be assailants before they can commit them. Have these University of Chicago researchers made Read More ›