FizzyOrange comments on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Why though? What action can you take on "Dave is 50% more likely to murder than Jim"?

Murders are too rare for this to be remotely useful.

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So they can use it to dramatically expand data collection "to achieve 0 murders", and before you know it everyone's getting disappeared by the thought police.

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