In London, gardens serve to guard the elite from the real state of the world. Beyond the hedges of the garden lie the reality of the city that they refuse to accept — the food-banks and the knife crime of the ‘outside’. Living in their own world was said to contribute to their bafflement when the general public chose to support leaving the EU; none of their afternoon-tea conversations touched upon Brexit being a possibility! Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
