Minority Report-style crime-predicting AI predictably sucks at its job

The UK government has been funneling millions of dollars into a prediction tool for violent crime that uses artificial intelligence. Now, officials are finally ready to admit that it has one big flaw: It's completely unusable. Police have already stopped developing the system called "Most Serious Violence" (MSV), part of the UK's National Data Analytics Solution (NDAS) project, and luckily was never actually put to use -- yet plenty of questions about the system remain. The tool worked by assigning people scores based on how likely they were to commit a gun or knife crime within the next two years. Two databases from two different UK police departments were used to train the system, including crime and custody records.