Police to 'predict' hate crimes through Twitter for the first time

Police will use artificial intelligence to predict real-life hate crimes based on Twitter comments in the first trial of its kind in the UK. The AI system, which was developed by Cardiff University researchers, will be used to match hateful comments on the social media site to locations in the UK in an effort to prevent violence offline. Researchers proved that as the number of "hate tweets" – those deemed to be antagonistic in terms of race, ethnicity or religion – made from one location increased, so did the number of racially and religiously aggravated crimes, including violence, harassment and criminal damage. Police plan to use this technology from October 31 to track racist and hateful...