cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28280646
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.
Is it triplets in body temp water popping out spheres with people’s names in them?
Turned out to be a crock of shit.
But the torture basement isn’t going to fill itself.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/jon-burge-torture-reparations
Of course. The paranoid state thinking everyone is out to get them developed “pre-cogs” from Minority Report. Except it’s a hallucinating LLM. Brilliant.
Maybe England should’ve stuck with government based on wartery tarts doling out scimitars.Minority Report
German author Sebastian Fitzek wrote a nice thriller on this topic: Das Joshua Profil
The MoJ has developed and implemented other data-based profiling tools in the British criminal legal system to predict offending.
This includes the re-offending prediction tool called the ‘Offender Assessment System’. ‘Predictions’ produced by this system are given to judges as part of sentencing decisions, prison categorisation, and also influence probation decisions, such as when someone is released from prison.Research by the MoJ itself has found that these data-based models rank Black offenders less accurately than white offenders.
“The government has a secret system. It spies on you every hour of every day.”
