Woke AI Won't Save Us

The American criminal justice system has never been great for minorities. But in 2011, it got a lot worse. This was the year that the tech industry innovated its way into policing. It began with a group of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, who developed a system for predicting which areas of a city crimes were most likely to occur. Police could then flood these areas with officers in order to prevent offenses from being committed, or so the thinking went.