Letter decrying predictive criminality AI research paper passes 1,000 signatures

The Coalition for Critical Technology (CCT) penned a letter opposing the publication of research called "A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing." At the time of publication the letter has more than 1,000 signatures from researchers, practitioners, academics, and others. According to a press release from Harrisburg University, the paper is slated for publication in a book series from Springer Publishing, and the letter urges readers to demand that Springer pull the paper and condemn the use of criminal justice statistics to predict criminality. The use of algorithms in predictive policing is a fraught subject. As the CCT letter elaborates, criminal justice data is notoriously flawed.