US police turn to AI to curb their own violence

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3085, 2016, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • None of their colleagues may have noticed, but a computer has. Churning through the police force's staff records, it has found telltale signs that an officer is at high risk of initiating an "adverse event"--racial profiling or, worse, an unwarranted shooting. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in North Carolina is piloting the system in an attempt to tackle the police violence that has become a heated issue in the US in the past three years. A University of Chicago team is helping them feed their data into a machine learning system that works out how to spot risk factors for unprofessional conduct. The department can then step in before risk transforms into actual harm.