British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
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Avon and Somerset Police secretly built over 20 crime-prediction algorithms affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Bristol, England, using sensitive data like mental health records and school meals status. At least two models were scrapped after proving untrustworthy, with one burglary-prediction model correctly identifying offenders less than 10% of the time — yet the UK is now investing £75 million to expand AI policing nationwide.
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