AI Police State: China to use technology to predict crimes BEFORE they happen
AI POLICE STATE: China to use technology to predict
crimes BEFORE they happen
CHINA is hoping to use artificial intelligence (AI) to
look into the future and help police predict crimes BEFORE they have even been
committed.
By SEAN MARTIN PUBLISHED: 13:05, Mon, Jul 24, 2017 |
UPDATED: 13:28, Mon, Jul 24, 2017
Much like in the 2002 film Minority Report, starring Tom
Cruise, authorities in the east Asian country want to catch criminals before
they have done any wrongdoing.
The police in the surveillance state have enlisted the
help of AI to determine who is going to commit a crime before its happened.
Li Meng, vice-minister of science, said: “If we use our
smart systems and smart facilities well, we can know beforehand… who might be a
terrorist, who might do something bad.”
One of the ways China is hoping to peek into the future
is with facial recognition firm Cloud Walk which is trialling software that
gathers data on where people are what they are doing.
For example, if a citizen is to visit a weapons shop then
the firm can combine this with other data to assess the individuals chance of
committing a crime.
Cloud Walk spokesperson Fu Xiaolong said: “The police are
using a big-data rating system to rate highly suspicious groups of people based
on where they go and what they do.”
He added that the risk rises if the person “frequently
visits transport hubs and goes to suspicious places like a knife store”.
Another way that the police can use AI to predict crimes
is through algorithms that use “crowd analysis” to detect “suspicious” patterns
of individuals to determine if they are a thief, for example.
It can also be used to monitor “high risk” locations,
such as knife and hammer shops.
Mr Fu added: “Of course, if someone buys a kitchen knife
that’s OK, but if the person also buys a sack and a hammer later, that person
is becoming suspicious.”
Authorities are also set to use “personal
re-identification” software to match someones identification even if they are
in an entirely new location and attempting to disguise themselves.
Leng Biao, professor of bodily recognition on the Beijing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, said: “We can use re-ID to find
people who look suspicious by walking back and forth in the same area, or who
are wearing masks.
“With re-ID, it’s also possible to reassemble someone’s
trail across a large area.”
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