In 2011, the Los Angeles police department rolled out a novel approach to policing called Operation Laser. Information collected during these policing efforts was fed into computer software that further helped automate the department’s crime-prediction efforts. The data the LAPD used to predict the future was rife with bias, leading to the over-policing and disproportionate targeting of Black and brown communities – often the same ones they had been targeting for years, experts argue. Some activists say police employ systems purporting to use artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies to do what it really isn’t capable of doing, that is, to analyse human behaviour to predict future crime. If you want to read the complete version of the newsletter please subscribe to receive TechScape in your inbox every Wednesday.

Source: The Guardian December 23, 2021 01:06 UTC