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Dystopia? Britannia kehittää järjestelmää, joka ennustaisi sen, kenestä tulee murhaaja

Järjestelmä yhdistelee mm. terveystietoja ja muuta hyvinkin henkilökohtaista dataa ja vertailee sitä rikoksista tuomittujen ihmisten taustoihin. Näin pyrittäisiin löytämään tulevat murhaajat, vaikka he eivät olisi koskaan syyllistyneet rikoksiin.

dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/13/bri

AfterDawn · Britannia kehittää työkalua, joka ennustaisi todennäköisimmät murhaajatBy Petteri Pyyny

1/ No, this is not Minority Report. It’s worse.

After reading headline after headline comparing the findings from our investigation to the film #MinorityReport, we thought we'd set the record straight.

The UK Ministry of Justice is piloting a ‘Homicide Prediction’ tool—not in a sci-fi future, but right now. And no, it’s not powered by some psychic soup in a “Precrime” department. It’s a very real project, misusing people’s personal data to make biased assumptions and threatening our rights.

Someone's watched the movie "#MinorityReport" too many times 🙄
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The country’s far-right president #JavierMilei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use “#MachineLearning #algorithms to analyse historical crime data to predict #FutureCrimes”.

#HumanRights

#Argentina will use #AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights
theguardian.com/world/article/

The Guardian · Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rightsBy Harriet Barber

Of late, many federal agencies have grown increasingly concerned with #InsiderThreat to their internal systems.

In response, some #IT companies are now proposing to collect hundreds of "psychological indicators" of all agency employees and consultants—mental health, physical health, medication history, financial health, shopping habit, social activity, risky behaviour, ...—and use #AI to identify "potentially problematic" staff. This is sounding more and more like #MinorityReport.

It is astonishing that no one raised #ethical and #legal concerns. Instead, they are all busy trying to outsell each other on AI.

AI may well be getting smarter, I don't know. But I do know that humanity is definitely getting dumber.

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So... "Minority Report - how was it?" I hear you crying out...

Very good. Let's start with that.

How close is it to the original? Well, it's the third adaptation of the key ideas of pre-crime - PKD's original short story, the Hollywood film, and now this stage adaptation. Quite different to both earlier versions.

Currently in Nottingham Playhouse but then going to Birmingham Rep and Lyric Hammersmith