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— 6) A more practical example of the need for XAI —

Pre-crime, pre-policing, is redrum level of crimson (or viceversa?), when used by law enforcement & intelligence services. I feel the need to link up what I've read (there are more links within links, just in case you might get bored on this particular subject)...

Switzerland's Bedrohungsmangement via its Octagon:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756061623000319

Swiss' PRECOBS, Canada's ODARA, Germany's DyRiAS:

https://www.foraus.ch/posts/the-false-promise-of-objectivity-examining-bias-in-predictive-policing/

And Chicago (hey-hey):

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/jetlaw/2024/02/20/failures-of-predictive-policing-chicagos-shotspotter-program/

https://www.techpolicy.press/politicians-move-to-limit-predictive-policing-after-years-of-controversial-failures/

Nothing will repair the irreparable. Let's get around a table, with everyone involved, agree that it was given a more than fair trial, and scrap all the projects, everywhere in the world.

I want to force people to imagine how A.I. & predictive policing would've looked like in 20th century totalitarian hotspots. Would it had been better if a magical thingamabob "just confirmed" those people are bad, because A.I. identification & prediction can't figure out permutations, or are we going intentionally into a nightmare?

Imperceptibly so?

No wonder the (18-30) kids are choosing voluntary sterilizations. Well, their baby boomer old folk got their brains ruptured since 1962 (since you brought up the nuclear arsenals graph; a vaccine of sorts, with more unintended consequences living in the now).

This occurs, however, because the British, the ruzzians, and the Germans ruined camps, and it's not trendy to bring them up ever again. Now people will have to get ever more creative & under the radar.

At least predictive policing & pre-crime laws mixed with A.I., will now sanitize the whole internment (prisons...) thing, make it "clean" – right?

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