Some of the best, or at least sharpest, minds on the planet are devoted to guessing what we might buy next, and showing us advertisements for it. Often the results are ludicrously inaccurate; sometimes they are creepily precise.
Would we trust the same kind of technology to predict what crimes we might next commit? That is the question raised by the latest report by campaigners at Liberty on the implications of the police’s use of big data and machine learning, the technologies usually referred to as artificial intelligence.
