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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
(www.theguardian.com)
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Why though? What action can you take on "Dave is 50% more likely to murder than Jim"?
Murders are too rare for this to be remotely useful.
So they can use it to dramatically expand data collection "to achieve 0 murders", and before you know it everyone's getting disappeared by the thought police.