Imagine getting arrested for a crime you joked about committing or something you emailed to somebody in a momentary spasm of anger. From Steve Watson at modernity.news:
“Chilling and dystopian”
The UK government is in the process of developing a system to predict whether people will commit homicide in the future.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
The idea is the literal plot line of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian story ‘Minority Report,’ where individuals are arrested before they are able to commit crimes thanks to a ‘precrime’ predictive policing system.
It’s the exact same thing, minus the mutant human precogs. In reality the program will be much more boring, using ‘algorithms’ to churn through data and spit out results.
Given that the data will presumably include spicy social media posts, which are now being punished with prison sentences in the UK, you can see where this is going.
