The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.
Why are they rebooting “Minority Report?” The Tom Cruise version was excellent, we don’t need a new one.
570 recorded homicides between March 2023 and 2024.
Data on “hundreds of thousands” of people can’t provide the distinguishing markers to even have a stab at this.
It can reliably predict when people are black, though.
social rating here we go
Was that a Black Mirror episode?
It was an episode on The Orville. Probably Black Mirror too.
Probably. It’s also reality in China.
No? Why are you spouting BS? The Chinese Social Credit System is basically the same as the consumer credit reporting agencies in North America. Except the data is handled by an authorian state instead of for profit corpos.
It’s also based on “law-abiding behavior” and “moral values” Source:
2.2. Finding the Social Credit System in a regulatory jungle
The broad range of policy goals projected on the system explains why what is generally translated as “social credit” is not a clearly and legally defined concept. Documents and discussions of the system contain a set of terms that range from financial creditworthiness (征信) to broader trustworthiness, law-abiding behaviour, or even moral values such as honesty and integrity (诚信/守信).
I don’t know if all of that has been implemented, but that does seem to be part of the goals.
Yes, it probably has its issues with vague wording. But MERCS also released a fact check a year later, attempting to dispel myths:
Interesting. Thanks for the link!
Hey, remember when pre-musk twitter had to turn off their extremism automod for republican politicians because they were constantly spewing the same patterns of extremist content that actual ISIS-supporting accounts were?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I’m not superstitious, but I’m starting to think that the 30s are cursed, the closer we get to them the worse Europe gets.
Yeah, can’t say that I disagree
Reminder to watch Minority Report again… I don’t even remember whether that movie was any good or not
Can’t believe that movie is looking to become a reality in my lifetime.
Is Tom Cruise going to run the program?
Call it Minority Report
Because they will inevitably target minorities?
Because of the early 2000’s movie Minority Report that has this exact same plot and is starred by Tom Cruise.
I feel it’s time for a remake, maybe turn the three
sistersprecogs into 3 AI computers?maybe turn the three sisters
Two of the three precogs were boys, by the way.
Be ready to go to jail for shit you never did, and then be forced to watch the thing you never did for your entire sentence. What do you think you’ll do when you are released?
You’re assuming they’ll ever release you.
“I’m sorry; we predicted that, if we were to release you now, you’ll murder someone.”
