In 2002, the film Minority Report, based on the work of Philip Dick, was released. It told about a future in which a special system predicted crimes before they were committed and prevented them in this way. Then no one even thought about systems based on artificial intelligence, but today, with the development of technology, the motion pictures of the early 2000s no longer seem like science fiction. Moreover, the UK police have launched a project in which AI will do about the same as in the film "Minority Report" - to identify offenders before they broke the law.
According to New Scientist, the new system was named NDAS - National Data Analytics Solution. She uses information from local and national police databases for her work. Ian Donnelly, the project manager, said that they collected over a terabyte of data from these systems, including data on crimes committed and information on about 5 million people.
The NDAS has 1400 characteristics that can help identify someone with the potential to commit a crime. According to these parameters, people in the database are marked by the system's algorithm as prone to violent actions and will receive a "risk score", which indicates their chances of committing a serious crime in the future.
The West Midlands Police Department (a county in the west of England) is already using this project in test mode and will continue to apply it until March 2019. It is also planned to involve 8 other UK police departments in the project. Project leader Ian Donnelly stated the following:
Vladimir Kuznetsov