MINORITY REPORT? U.S. WARNED – COPS ARE ALREADY USING AI TO STOP CRIMES BEFORE THEY HAPPEN

Editor’s Note: We are officially living in Minority Report, but without all the cool futuristic gadgetry. Great.
Pre-crime, a term coined by science fiction author Philip K. Dick and loosely described as the use of artificial intelligence to detect and stop crime before it happens, has become a terrifying reality – and will likely be business-as-usual for police in just 15 years.
‘Cities have already begun to deploy AI technologies for public safety and security,’ a team of academic researchers wrote in a new report titledArtificial Intelligence and Life in 2030. ‘By 2030, the typical North American city will rely heavily upon them. These include cameras for surveillance that can detect anomalies pointing to a possible crime, drones, and predictive policing applications.’
First in an ongoing series for the Stanford University-hosted One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI 100), the report is intended to spark debate on the benefits and detriments of AI’s growing presence in society – and, as in the area of law enforcement, the removal of the human factor won’t necessarily end well.

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on SEPTEMBER 13, 2016.