Could artificial intelligence offer a fairer and more efficient way of policing?
The new commissioner, Mark Rowley, has said that “we have to prepare for more painful stories” and warned that two or three officers per week are expected to appear in court on criminal charges in coming months.
Could artificial intelligence therefore offer a fairer and more efficient way forward for 21st-century policing? There are broadly two types of AI: “narrow AI”, which can perform specific tasks such as image recognition, and “general purpose AI”, which makes far more complex judgments and decisions extending across all kinds of domains.
suggests the need for caution. So called “predictive policing” uses historical information to identify possible future perpetrators and victims, but studies have shown that the source data for this kind of modelling can be riddled with preconceptions, generating, for example, results that categorise people of colour as disproportionately “dangerous” or “lawless”.
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