Scientists want 'Minority Report' pre-crime face recognition AI stopped

Over 1500 researchers across multiple fields have banded together to openly reject the use of technology to predict crime, arguing it would reproduce injustices and cause real harm. The Coaltition for Critical Technology wrote an open letter to Springer Verlag in Germany to express their grave concerns about a newly developed automated facial recognition software that a group of scientistts from Harrisburg Univeristy, Pennsylvania have developed. Springer's Nature Research Book Series intends to publish an article by the Harrisburg scientists named A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing. The coalition wants the publication of the study - and others in similar vein - to be rescinded, arguing the paper makes claims that are based unsound scientific premises, research and methods. Developed by a New York Police Department veteran and PhD student Jonathan Korn along with professors Nathaniel Ashby and Roozbeh Sadeghian, the Harrisburg University researchers' software claims 80 per cent accuracy and no racial bias.