Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

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What do you know, every sci-fi movie ever on the topic was right.
- I'm so grateful for living in a society that lacks this technology. Imagine being arrested out of nowhere because a machine said you were going to do something bad in a year from now.
  
  Hell, imagine not even knowing what you were going to do, but the algorithm said so.
minority report
they're selling hype, not software