Before they strike. So not criminals but folks thinking about crime.
Someone is going to have a greater time fighting that in a court. And the tax payers will end up paying for such dumb ideas.
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Oh yes, "predictive policing". I guess somebody haven't read Phillip K. Dick's The Minority Report, or thought it was an implementation guide rather than a cautionary tale.
1984 Here we come. The Thoughtpolice have arrived.
I've seen this film...
This will be fine. After all, a government that understands technology so well it implemented the genius tech regulations in the OSA coupled with a Police force with officers so intelligent they never get the law wrong or have a growing reputation for violence against women can easily be trusted to not take the UK down a dystopian path where the non-white and/or poor and/or disabled will be targetted simply by living in an area where a crime once happened.
This sounds like fairly normal machine learning models, not "advanced AI".
Inspector Inigo Montoya will likely find no shortage of six-fingered men, I suspect. The sooner this AI bubble bursts, the better.