Data scientist here; there simply are not enough murders to model this, so they will need to use proxies for “likely” murderers (like any sort of violent crime). That means the model will very strongly target people who are over-policed (minorities) and those more likely to actually get caught and charged for things, and thus be in the training data set (poor people). It will also fail spectacularly for this purpose because even a highly accurate model will produce almost 100% false positives -again, because actual murders are so vanishingly rare. The math just doesn’t work.

I give it two seconds to turn into racism machine

Guilty until proven innocent.

Oh, I've seen this one. where's scientology Tom in this episode?

Is this turning into minority report in real life?

We are living the plot from PsychoPass

What can go wrong?

Let me guess: Palantir

Healthcare CEOs at the top of the list.

Will this drive the first wrongfully accused person to suicide or will it just somehow, magically, target all brown and black people? Stay tuned to see how much taxpayer money gets sunk into this tool.

Prediction: this gets used to surveil dissidents and minorities disproportionately.

Welcome to our over-securitized late stage capitalist hellscape. All so companies can push out these bogus 'tools' and eat more of the state budget and profit like the crony capitalists they are. Not the first time. First as a tragedy, second as a farce.

apparently Uk govt has never played watch dogs legion, nor seen Equilibrium (C Bale movie), nor Minority Report, nor Richard III, nor read Brave New World, nor the billion other movies, novels, games, poems, songs, Banksy art, social videos, cave paintings, etc that specifically warned UK not to (re)become the villain (over and over again)

it's like the 2nd most popular culture topic.... after "love" or something

but noooo, just had to be edgelordsandladies.gov.uk

.........

They should make three, and they all have to agree, but if only one disagrees then maybe they can ignore it, call it the "minority account" or something like that.

Psycho Pass called, you missed its point

Major black mirror vibes

Will the British cabinet be automatically included on the list?

Yay, concentration camps. My list of countries to live in is consistently getting smaller.

There's no possible way this could go badly.

Just visit congress.gov and you have your list.

So are they going to enforce ICC warrants?

Does it identify people like Kid Starver who are murdering the disabled on an industrial scale?

Isn't this the TV show Person of Interest?

Is it April fools? please still be April's fools, checks calendar, dammit, not April's fools still. It's actually news.

I hope many of their politicians get placed high on the list.