Governments and entities around the world are starting to venture deep into Minority Report-land, giving serious attention to the use of artificial intelligence and scoring databases to assign risk in a way that influences the lives of ordinary people in profound, game-changing, and even slightly creepy ways.
We reported just last week about how the government in China is rolling out a “social credit” scoring system that central authorities are using to keep closer watch on the country’s 1.3 billion citizens and to limit the activities — like booking flights — of people deemed to be “untrustworthy” and assigned low scores as part of this system.
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British cops want to see if AI can prevent crimes, like ‘Minority Report’ in real life originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 15:14:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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