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It’s a little like a machine controlled ‘stop and frisk’.

[weard_beard]

But would I have done it if the police weren’t following me? What if the computer is identifying at risk paranoid schizophrenics likely to be pushed over the edge by noticeable increases in their personal surveillance?

Frankly that seems more plausible than telling the future

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I don’t make any claim at all for its capability. But if you load a dataset into some sort of ML algorithm right now, with the data coming from current policing statistics, you are going to be perpetuating some pretty dark stuff. Police target various groups and minorities.

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"The data is racist" will be a common refrain in this AI revolution.