Havildar Tom Cruise? A case diary of Indian cops’ craze for artificial intelligence in policing
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Of late, police in multiple Indian states have been using algorithms to be more proactive than reactive. That may sound like a good idea, but predictive policing brings with it a plethora of questions. Possible violation of privacy and the fear of bias are among them.
As much a cliche it may sound, it is difficult not to start a story on predictive policing without referencing Steven Spielberg’s Tom Cruise-starrer Minority Report, based on a short story by Philip K Dick.The movie, set in the Washington DC of 2054, is based on a system put in place to prevent crimes before they take place. While the reality of predictive policing — as the jingbang is called — is far from the science fiction of Minority Report,
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