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Police Algorithm Said Woman Faces 'Medium' Risk, She Was Killed Weeks Later
A Spanish woman was classified as "medium" risk by a police algorithm when she reported threats and past violence by her former partner. Three weeks later, she was killed, allegedly by the same man.
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Opinion: AI To Solve A Murder - Future Of Crime Fighting?
In the race between cops and criminals, it often seems like the bad guys have the upper hand, especially with tech like AI creating deepfakes, policing algorithms going rogue with their biases, and so on.
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AI-Based Algorithm Can Predict Violent, Property Crimes a Week in Advance With 90 Percent Accuracy
Thanks to advancements in machine learning, scientists have now been able to develop a computer model that can predict crime that is about to occur up to a week before it happens. Using public data, data scientists and social scientists at the University of Chicago have developed an algorithm that predicts future violent and property crimes with 90...
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From Election Campaign To Shopping, How Algorithms (Secretly) Run The World
The complex mathematical formulas are playing a growing role in all walks of life: from detecting skin cancers to suggesting new Facebook friends, deciding who gets a job, how police resources are deployed, who gets insurance at what cost, or who is on a "no fly" list.
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Twetiquette: The self-appointed Twitter scolds
A small but vocal spelling and grammar police is patrolling Twitter. These are people who build their own algorithms to sniff out tweets with typos or flawed grammar and then send scolding notes to the offenders.
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Police Algorithm Said Woman Faces 'Medium' Risk, She Was Killed Weeks Later
A Spanish woman was classified as "medium" risk by a police algorithm when she reported threats and past violence by her former partner. Three weeks later, she was killed, allegedly by the same man.
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Opinion: AI To Solve A Murder - Future Of Crime Fighting?
In the race between cops and criminals, it often seems like the bad guys have the upper hand, especially with tech like AI creating deepfakes, policing algorithms going rogue with their biases, and so on.
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AI-Based Algorithm Can Predict Violent, Property Crimes a Week in Advance With 90 Percent Accuracy
Thanks to advancements in machine learning, scientists have now been able to develop a computer model that can predict crime that is about to occur up to a week before it happens. Using public data, data scientists and social scientists at the University of Chicago have developed an algorithm that predicts future violent and property crimes with 90...
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From Election Campaign To Shopping, How Algorithms (Secretly) Run The World
The complex mathematical formulas are playing a growing role in all walks of life: from detecting skin cancers to suggesting new Facebook friends, deciding who gets a job, how police resources are deployed, who gets insurance at what cost, or who is on a "no fly" list.
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Twetiquette: The self-appointed Twitter scolds
A small but vocal spelling and grammar police is patrolling Twitter. These are people who build their own algorithms to sniff out tweets with typos or flawed grammar and then send scolding notes to the offenders.
