#This reblog could've been a lot longer. I tried to keep it short.

[anarcho-masochist]

Yes, and it's a bad thing. (Which you probably already think, given your blog, but let me expand on it anyway.)

For example, the primary way it is used is it to predict where to deploy law enforcement. It uses statistical analysis on past crimes and arrests; it is not some psychic that can see the future. These trends will reinforce earlier biases in policing. A lot of crimes were identified in black or poor areas? Send more police there. Never mind that the crime rates are highly influenced by existing over-policing, especially of drug crimes which, according to self-report surveys, are just as prevalent if not more so among other demographics. That's not reflected in the statistics of where police find drug crime because police are overwhelmingly targeting specific groups.

And when used for investigations or risk assessment? It's not only biased, but highly inaccurate.

I have linked a variety of articles and papers below the cut for further information and additional viewpoints. (I also included some where the source is in favor of AI policing but still give a thorough overview of the range of uses... I'm sure you can understand people's concerns.)

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4773&context=wlulr

Much like the Sibyl System, it doesn't matter if it actually works, it matters if the criminal justice system can obfuscate understanding of how it actually works or convince people it does more good than harm. Governments such as the United States bank on the fact that most people will not look into it or care enough to do anything about it, or even that a group will emphatically support this thinking that it is making the world safer. Explain AI led policing to your average middle-to-upperclass white tech bro and they'll probably think it's a great idea.

Here are some scholarly articles that discuss Psycho-Pass specifically:

https://www.academia.edu/download/56530297/Algorithmic_tyranny_-_Psycho-Pass__science_fiction_and_the_criminological_imagination.pdf

^ this one cost $38 to access, so I made it a nice PDF for my Google Drive. This is definitely legal and personal use only, I trust all of you not to download it yourselves ;)