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The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is Tom Cruise going to run the program?

Call it Minority Report

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Because they will inevitably target minorities?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because of the early 2000's movie Minority Report that has this exact same plot and is starred by Tom Cruise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I feel it's time for a remake, maybe turn the three ~~sisters~~ precogs into 3 AI computers?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

maybe turn the three sisters

Two of the three precogs were boys, by the way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I definitely need to rewatch this movie again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's just institutional racism with extra steps