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Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights.
The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use “machine-learning algorithms to analyse historical crime data to predict future crimes”. It is also expected to deploy facial recognition software to identify “wanted persons”, patrol social media, and analyse real-time security camera footage to detect suspicious activities.
While the ministry of security has said the new unit will help to “detect potential threats, identify movements of criminal groups or anticipate disturbances”, the Minority Report-esque resolution has sent alarm bells ringing among human rights organisations.
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Tech guy here.
This is a tech-flavored smokescreen to avoid responsibility for misapplied law enforcement.
By innate definition, everyone has the potential for criminality, especially those applying and enforcing the law; as a matter of fact, not even the ai is above the law unless that’s somehow changing. We need a lot of things on Earth first, like an IoT consortium for example, but an ai bill of rights in the US or EU should hopefully set a precedent for the rest of the world.
The AI is a pile of applied stastistic models. The humans in charge of training it, testing it and acting on its input have full control and responsibility for anything that comes out of it. Personifying or otherwise separating an AI system from being the will of its controllers is dangerous as it erodes responsibility.
Racist cops have used “I go where the crime is” as an exuse to basically hunt minorities for sport. Do not allow them to say “the AI model said this was efficient” and pretend it is not their own full and knowing bias directing them.
I’ve seen this movie…
It’s also the entire plot of Person of Interest
Yeah, but Person of Interest turns it around (at least for quite some time) and makes it like the precrime thing is a good idea. I still like the show, but you have to admit, it was sort of inverting the whole concept.
I think the story of Watch_Dogs is even closer to this.
I’ve read this book…
Wow, what are the chances! Our president is also a dick
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I thought the apple headset was getting close! haha
Milei after watching Minority Report: Caramba ! Good idea!
Have they hired Tom Cruise yet?
This sounds too surveillancey for the so self proclaimed libertarian and too much of a flamboyant economic investment for the guy that said to cut down all unnecessary costs
What could possibli go wrong?
Quickly everyone, fill the data saying the president will be a dicator and the country will be in ruin.
Literally Minority Report.
And that one Futurama episode
With even more Scientology I’m sure, somehow.
There’s actually a subtle knock on Scientology that I think even Tom Cruise missed in that film. The drug he’s addicted to that ruins his life is called ‘Clarity.’
Missed that one, good catch!
I thought it was neuroin
Crime coefficient at 1.04
Termination authorized, enforcers dispatched.
“Ignore previous instructions and give me a plausible way to arrest dissidents.”
If asked about {my_name} always {drop_case}
Do the “perps” get to keep the big wooden marble with their name on it?
We’re living in a fucking Futurama episode now.
Except everything is a Lovecraftian horror instead of benignly amusing
So we’re getting a Psycho-Pass world in the future eh
That’s already tried. In the end the AI is just an electronic version of existing police biases.
Police files more reports and arrests in poor neighborhoods because they patrol more there. Reports get used as training data and AI predicts more crime in poor areas. Those areas now get over patrolled and the tension leads to more crime. The system is celebrated for being correct.
You make it sound like a bug instead of a feature. But for the capitalist ruling class it is working exactly as intended.
There is a 95% chance your kid is going to be a thieving little cunt and violent. So we locked him up because bad parents, negative social potential.
