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An algorithm has been developed by the UK’s Ministry of Justice to predict which criminals might later commit murder. The tool, originally named the “Homicide Prediction Project,” is called the “Sharing Data to Improve Risk Assessment.”Led by the Ministry of Justice, Greater Manchester Police, Home Office and Metropolitan Police, the project started in January 2023 and, according to a timeline obtained by Statewatch via the Freedom of Information Act, was completed in December 2024 but is yet to be deployed.It raises concerns about bias and the ethical implications of using such predictive models on vast datasets, including those already facing...

The UK government is in the process of developing a system to predict whether people will commit homicide in the future.What could possibly go wrong with that?The idea is the literal plot line of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian story ‘Minority Report,’ where individuals are arrested before they are able to commit crimes thanks to a ‘precrime’ predictive policing system.It’s the exact same thing, minus the mutant human precogs. In reality the program will be much more boring, using ‘algorithms’ to churn through data and spit out results.Given that the data will presumably include spicy social media posts, which are now...