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‘Predictive policing’ is a techno-tool of white supremacy
April 30, 2021
10:30 AM CDT
By Joel Wendland-Liu
A ShotSpotter predictive policing program in operation within the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Headquarters. | L.E. Baskow / Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP
Hollywood presents artificial intelligence as our inevitable future. In the show,
Caprica, the prequel to the epic
Battlestar Galactica, which centers on a massive struggle between humans and their robot creations, the Cylons, huge amounts of data are combined to produce artificially intelligent machines based on real human lives.