UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill
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>The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.
>Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.
>The scheme was originally called the “homicide prediction project”, but its name has been changed to “sharing data to improve risk assessment”.
>The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it “chilling and dystopian”.
Minority Report vibes.
Will they be getting big explody, transforming guns as well?
Good time to read The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalaami
So are they taking inspiration from minority report now. Hmm and i thought Hollywood had run out of ideas
After this mandatory brain scans, and after that forced brain rewiring.
Phillip K Dick was a prophet. What more proof do we need?
Oh, cool! Do they already have their precogs in mind?
Anybody saw “Psycho-Pass”? That’s literally the lore
you could just incarcerate everyone, that’d gett’em, prevention is better than cure, right?
It’s a good idea in principle. However it’s infeasible.
You cannot get 100% accuracy. Ever. Unless you get a standardized way to read minds. All you can really do with this is to automate Red Flagging using publicly available data. It’s just like having your friends in facebook report you for posting “I’ll kill X person”. Except it’s faster and automated.
You can get more accurate results if the concept of privacy is broken down and everything the person ever writes or communicates is fed through the algorithm BUT people have thoughts and feelings outside the system too. So there’s always a ceiling that cannot be broken and the accuracy will never reach perfection and it will be at the cost of losing privacy which is bad. I don’t think the benefits outweigh the costs. The potential for misuse is a lot more than the potential benefits.
Another thing is that Motivation isn’t the same thing as having the means or intent. So a person wanting to kill another person isn’t the same thing as the person already killed the other person. You cannot prosecute FUTURE crimes. At best this can be used to increase security where it’s needed.
Minority Report, Person of Interest, Psycho-Pass, I’m sure there are others as those are just the ones I can think off the top of my head… HOW many different sci-fi series are there about this sort of thing that exist? And they all end the same way. This won’t end well either.