A ‘homicide prevention’ system being tested in the UK aims to predict who will commit murder

The World

According to a watchdog nonprofit called Statewatch, the UK Ministry of Justice’s “Homicide Prevention Project” has used AI and government databases to determine whether convicted criminals are likely to commit murder in the future. Chris Jones, the director of Statewatch, told The World’s Carolyn Beeler that the project sounds serious alarm bells from a human rights and civil liberties standpoint — in addition to sounding a lot like a famous science fiction plot.

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