AI predicts crime a week in advance with 90 per cent accuracy - but may also perpetuate racist bias

'Our model enables discovery of these connections. 'We demonstrate the importance of discovering city-specific patterns for the prediction of reported crime, which generates a fresh view on neighbourhoods in the city, allows us to ask novel questions, and lets us evaluate police action in new ways.' According to results published yesterday in Nature Human Behaviour, the model performed just as well in data from seven other US cities as it did Chicago.