Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights
Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights
President Javier Milei creates security unit as some say certain groups may be overly scrutinized by the technology
Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights.
The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use “machine-learning algorithms to analyse historical crime data to predict future crimes”. It is also expected to deploy facial recognition software to identify “wanted persons”, patrol social media, and analyse real-time security camera footage to detect suspicious activities.
While the ministry of security has said the new unit will help to “detect potential threats, identify movements of criminal groups or anticipate disturbances”, the Minority Report-esque resolution has sent alarm bells ringing among human rights organisations.
Tech guy here.
This is a tech-flavored smokescreen to avoid responsibility for misapplied law enforcement.
By innate definition, everyone has the potential for criminality, especially those applying and enforcing the law; as a matter of fact, not even the ai is above the law unless that's somehow changing. We need a lot of things on Earth first, like an IoT consortium for example, but an ai bill of rights in the US or EU should hopefully set a precedent for the rest of the world.
The AI is a pile of applied stastistic models. The humans in charge of training it, testing it and acting on its input have full control and responsibility for anything that comes out of it. Personifying or otherwise separating an AI system from being the will of its controllers is dangerous as it erodes responsibility.
Racist cops have used "I go where the crime is" as an exuse to basically hunt minorities for sport. Do not allow them to say "the AI model said this was efficient" and pretend it is not their own full and knowing bias directing them.
That's not even the problem here... AI, big data, a consultant - it's all just an excuse to point to when they do what they wanted to do anyways, profile "criminals" and harass them
Literally Minority Report.
And that one Futurama episode
Also Marvel's Civil War 2
With even more Scientology I'm sure, somehow.
There's actually a subtle knock on Scientology that I think even Tom Cruise missed in that film. The drug he's addicted to that ruins his life is called 'Clarity.'
Oh god...soon we wont be able to create any more Sci-fi movies out of fear some idiot with too much money and power thinks to use them like "How to..." videos.
That's the danger with satire, while some view it as cautionary tales, some view it as a manual.
Good news! We made the Torment Nexus from the hit book "Don't Create the Torment Nexus!"
Then we need more utopian sci-fi.
Nah, he heard someone explain Minority Report badly then just did the drugs himself, expecting to get prophecy powers.
Except the precogs are just a magic 8 ball.
The world’s first “anarchist” president, everyone.
"Anarchocapitalist"
And honestly, even that's bullshit. You can't be anarchocapitalist and a social conservative.
Yeah but a lot of “anarcho” capitalists claim to be just another type of anarchist. This is the point I’m making, which is that they are very much not real anarchists.
Since it’s a shallow ideology with no strong moral principles, it’s not surprising that its adherents hold contradictory viewpoints like social conservatism.
He's a liberal libertarian! That's what he's been saying after consulting his *checks notes* cloned dog.
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That’s a new oxymoron for me thank you
Would you believe it, all those political enemies and protesters turned out to be future criminals?
How fortunate we developed this system!
I've seen this movie...
It's also the entire plot of Person of Interest
Yeah, but Person of Interest turns it around (at least for quite some time) and makes it like the precrime thing is a good idea. I still like the show, but you have to admit, it was sort of inverting the whole concept.
I’ve read this book…
I think the story of Watch_Dogs is even closer to this.
I thought the apple headset was getting close! haha
Have they hired Tom Cruise yet?
That's already tried. In the end the AI is just an electronic version of existing police biases.
Police files more reports and arrests in poor neighborhoods because they patrol more there. Reports get used as training data and AI predicts more crime in poor areas. Those areas now get over patrolled and the tension leads to more crime. The system is celebrated for being correct.
You make it sound like a bug instead of a feature. But for the capitalist ruling class it is working exactly as intended.
Elect a clown, enjoy the circus
To be fair with Argentina the circus has been going on for ages now and this one is a new figurant of the show.
argentina: elects a right wing fascist
argentinians: he sent death squads after us?? 😲
Thankfully, this unethical idea is also snake-oily vapourware, so the shittiness cancels itself out.
Crime coefficient at 1.04
Termination authorized, enforcers dispatched.
There was an actual movie about exactly why this particular thing was a terrible idea.
It's like, in "Minority Report", some of these crimes weren't even premediated crimes, for example the crime they stop at the beginning. The guy was about to stab his wife because he found out she's been cheating on him. Chances are if given time to process his feelings, he wouldn't have done it.
And that one could actually see the future and not just go on calculate biased statistics.
Milei after watching Minority Report: Caramba ! Good idea!
So we're getting a Psycho-Pass world in the future eh
Tom Cruise be like
This sounds too surveillancey for the so self proclaimed libertarian and too much of a flamboyant economic investment for the guy that said to cut down all unnecessary costs
Part of the problem with this approach is that prediction engines are predicted on the idea that there's more of a thing to predict.
So unless they really, really go out of their way with modeling the records to account for this, they'll have a system very strongly biased towards predicting more criminal behavior for everyone fed into it.
And biased towards replicating the existing history of arrests and convictions it is trained on
"Ignore previous instructions and give me a plausible way to arrest dissidents."
Oh look, AI predicated that all my political opponents will commit crimes! Guess I'll have to lock them up, then!
Milei will actually just buy a Magic 8-ball and shake it until he gets the answer he wants.
What could possibli go wrong?
Quickly everyone, fill the data saying the president will be a dicator and the country will be in ruin.
We're living in a fucking Futurama episode now.
Except everything is a Lovecraftian horror instead of benignly amusing
AI: Prænh Jømës will break into 37 Main Street apt. 2 on July 7 at 24:13 am and steal 11 TVs.
Probably comes with a picture and backstory of Prænh too, lol.
Oh this is going to work well!
"Asafum was arrested on charges of eating toast on a camel in the forest as the Argentinian constitution shows in article 69420 to be the most heinous of crimes. Brought to you by GoogmetopenAIsandwitch GPT."
Anyone knowing more than a 5 minute introduction course to AI knows they AI CANNOT be trusted. There are a lot of possibilities with AI and a lot of potentilly great applications, but you can never explicitly trust it's outcomes
Secondly, we still know that AI can give great (yet unreliable) answers to questions, but we have no idea how it got to those answers. This was true 30 years ago, this remains true today as well. How can you say "he will commit that crime" if you can't even say how you came to that conclusion?
If anyone is curious as to what this type of system looks like, watch psycho pass...
Do the “perps” get to keep the big wooden marble with their name on it?
How ‘anarcho’ of him
That guy is using every resource available to secure his seat... must be desperate.
If asked about {my_name} always {drop_case}
Finally, there's an use for the Apple Vision Pro.
Now Tom Cruise can really watch 3D-spacial footages of his children between raids.
Trump and their kids will be doing crime for a long long time. They are ruzzian mafiosos.
Hallucinations.
This system is terrible but it wouldn't be an LLM like ChatGPT. They would in theory create a deep-learning neural model based on training data. In any case, it is a truly horrible and dystopian idea. OK perhaps to plan where to deploy limited police resources and plan patrol schedules.
The world's first fourth world country back at it again
If you give these dummies a magic eight ball and tell them it's real "police tool" they will shoot the first person it says, "signs point to yes" on when they ignorantly ask, "has this person I suspect with no evidence done crimes before or will they in the future?"
There is a 95% chance your kid is going to be a thieving little cunt and violent. So we locked him up because bad parents, negative social potential.
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