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NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals (www.insider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals::The New York Police Department paid Voyager Labs more than $8 million in 2018. The company says it uses AI to analyze criminal behavior online.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can easily undercut their price by predicting every young male in all the poor neighbourhoods.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That would be profiling. You see, what this does is it uses a ton of input data and AI to determine who they think is most likely to commit all sorts of minor crimes we've codified to disproportionately target poor and minority suspects.