Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimes

Broken Algo Using the same kind of algorithms that predict earthquake aftershocks, cops have for more than a decade tried to use "predictive policing" software to presage where crimes will take place before they happen — and as a new investigation shows, it seems to have failed miserably. A joint investigation by The Markup and […]

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