President Javier Milei creates security unit as some say certain groups may be overly scrutinized by the technology

Argentina’s security forces have announced plans to use artificial intelligence to “predict future crimes” in a move experts have warned could threaten citizens’ rights.

The country’s far-right president Javier Milei this week created the Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unit, which the legislation says will use “machine-learning algorithms to analyse historical crime data to predict future crimes”. It is also expected to deploy facial recognition software to identify “wanted persons”, patrol social media, and analyse real-time security camera footage to detect suspicious activities.

While the ministry of security has said the new unit will help to “detect potential threats, identify movements of criminal groups or anticipate disturbances”, the Minority Report-esque resolution has sent alarm bells ringing among human rights organisations.

    • Frog@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 个月前

      Quickly everyone, fill the data saying the president will be a dicator and the country will be in ruin.

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
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    6 个月前

    Oh this is going to work well!

    “Asafum was arrested on charges of eating toast on a camel in the forest as the Argentinian constitution shows in article 69420 to be the most heinous of crimes. Brought to you by GoogmetopenAIsandwitch GPT.”

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 个月前

    AI: Prænh Jømës will break into 37 Main Street apt. 2 on July 7 at 24:13 am and steal 11 TVs.

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 个月前

    Part of the problem with this approach is that prediction engines are predicted on the idea that there’s more of a thing to predict.

    So unless they really, really go out of their way with modeling the records to account for this, they’ll have a system very strongly biased towards predicting more criminal behavior for everyone fed into it.

    • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      6 个月前

      And biased towards replicating the existing history of arrests and convictions it is trained on

    • TheFrirish@jlai.luEnglish
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      6 个月前

      To be fair with Argentina the circus has been going on for ages now and this one is a new figurant of the show.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 个月前

    Anyone knowing more than a 5 minute introduction course to AI knows they AI CANNOT be trusted. There are a lot of possibilities with AI and a lot of potentilly great applications, but you can never explicitly trust it’s outcomes

    Secondly, we still know that AI can give great (yet unreliable) answers to questions, but we have no idea how it got to those answers. This was true 30 years ago, this remains true today as well. How can you say “he will commit that crime” if you can’t even say how you came to that conclusion?

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 个月前

    That’s already tried. In the end the AI is just an electronic version of existing police biases.

    Police files more reports and arrests in poor neighborhoods because they patrol more there. Reports get used as training data and AI predicts more crime in poor areas. Those areas now get over patrolled and the tension leads to more crime. The system is celebrated for being correct.

    • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 个月前

      You make it sound like a bug instead of a feature. But for the capitalist ruling class it is working exactly as intended.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 个月前

    Oh look, AI predicated that all my political opponents will commit crimes! Guess I’ll have to lock them up, then!

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 个月前

      Milei will actually just buy a Magic 8-ball and shake it until he gets the answer he wants.