Jun 24, 2023 08:02 PM
(fashions in legislation) What’s wrong with predictive policing?
https://www.publicethics.org/post/what-s...e-policing
EXCERPTS: The European Union is leading the global race to regulate artificial intelligence research and development. In June 2023, the European Parliament is scheduled to vote on the Artificial Intelligence Act, which establishes a framework to classify the risk level of AI applications, imposing more stringent requirements on riskier systems.
One of the notable features of the Act is that it outright bans some AI-driven technology, including most applications of facial recognition software, social credit scoring systems like those used in China, AI systems that could harmfully manipulate the behavior of children, and predictive policing systems, which process historical crime data to predict places and people at greatest risk of crime.
As a researcher who studies the ethical implications of emerging technology, predictive policing strikes me as being quite unlike the other items on this list. As the U.S. begins to craft its own federal regulatory response to AI, likely taking EU regulation as a point of reference, it is therefore worth asking: what’s wrong with policing by algorithm?
[...] “Predictive policing” has become a pejorative term referring to a cluster of technologies used to predict future crime. Some predictive policing systems predict future criminals, others predict future victims, and still others predict where crime will occur in the future. Distinctive ethical and legal concerns confront each of these systems, but the EU proposal does not distinguish clearly between them... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.publicethics.org/post/what-s...e-policing
EXCERPTS: The European Union is leading the global race to regulate artificial intelligence research and development. In June 2023, the European Parliament is scheduled to vote on the Artificial Intelligence Act, which establishes a framework to classify the risk level of AI applications, imposing more stringent requirements on riskier systems.
One of the notable features of the Act is that it outright bans some AI-driven technology, including most applications of facial recognition software, social credit scoring systems like those used in China, AI systems that could harmfully manipulate the behavior of children, and predictive policing systems, which process historical crime data to predict places and people at greatest risk of crime.
As a researcher who studies the ethical implications of emerging technology, predictive policing strikes me as being quite unlike the other items on this list. As the U.S. begins to craft its own federal regulatory response to AI, likely taking EU regulation as a point of reference, it is therefore worth asking: what’s wrong with policing by algorithm?
[...] “Predictive policing” has become a pejorative term referring to a cluster of technologies used to predict future crime. Some predictive policing systems predict future criminals, others predict future victims, and still others predict where crime will occur in the future. Distinctive ethical and legal concerns confront each of these systems, but the EU proposal does not distinguish clearly between them... (MORE - missing details)