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Very excited for people who don’t understand how Bayesian statistics work to discover this means there will be literally 10M+ false arrests per year

… funny enough, it’s REALLY hard to get Wired to cough up that article, even with the author’s name and the complete headline. (It’s July, 2022) (DDG can produce it as the top hit.) 15 months from that breathless press release cosplaying as an article to this from October 7 2023:

Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimesfuturism.com For more than a decade, cops have tried to use "predictive policing" to presage where crimes will happen — but they seem not to work at all.