British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

# British Police's Crime-Predicting AI Has a Trust Problem British police forces are using artificial intelligence to predict where crimes will happen, but an investigation found the system sometimes gives unreliable results that officers can't depend on. The messy reality behind this high-tech experiment shows that just because something sounds cutting-edge doesn't mean it actually works as promised. For everyday people, this matters because policing decisions that affect your neighborhood might be based on AI predictions that haven't been properly tested.
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
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