Transcripts For ALJAZ The World According To AI P2 20240714

ALJAZ The World According To AI P2 July 14, 2024

A high security presence as he was buried at a cemetery in cairo rather than to his hometown of his family had requested a warner still gathered in motor home province of sharks are yet to pay their respects hundreds of residents prayed amid tight security and. And a spokesman for hamas in gaza praised most in support for the palestinians during his life in politics but the house expresses its condolences to the family of the former egyptian president Mohamed Morsi who passed away yesterday our people appreciated the national an arab rule that president morsi had with the palestinian cause as a member of parliament and as president of egypt in supporting palestinians rights and refusing these really offensive on the gaza strip especially in 2012 islamic scholars a former hamas leader and members of the egyptian they asked for a have attended a ceremony for the former egyptian president and qatar our reporter was there. Absentee funeral prayers of just concluded here in doha with hundreds of people gathering to pay their respects to the former president morsy the crowds overflowing from inside the mosque on to the carpark outside and beyond significant figures participating including the former leader of the political wing of the. Resistance Palestinian Resistance movement from egyptian actor is he going around or sonics corners. As well the significance of this gathering is the fact that the people who post here want to send a message to the egyptian authorities and despite attempts by the governments in egypt to prevent any similar you know president place in egypt and despite the states media essentially admitting to. The events of the death of. The legacy of egypts only ever democratically elected president is a legacy that goes beyond egypt and one that will continue it will not be forgotten. As far as these people are concerned Mohamed Morsi did not only represent significance because he was the president of egypt but because he was the only democratically elected 11 who represented the aspirations of selfdetermination of freedom by being that for a. President chosen of the gentlemen 25th revolution the presence of people like this is also a testament thats most of us here as a champion of other pauses in the struggle for freedom and palestine and other causes like the Syrian Revolution and so forth so prayers like these taking place in doha as well as malaysia turkey and other countries is testament. To not only our lives on through the day a Small Community of educations around the world but among the other arab and muslim communities who are seeing Mohamad Morsi champion of the local 1st. Gunmen have killed at least 41. 00 people in separate attacks in central mali the attacks took place in 2 different villages Ethnic Violence has search in the area in recent months the victims were mostly ethnic hundreds of people from the dog communities have been killed in fighting over land and water u. S. Secretary of state might compare has stopped saudi arabia from being added to a list of countries that recruit child soldiers. Goes against the state departments recommendation based on news reports and Rights Groups assessments they say the kingdom hired civilities children to fight in yemen canada has approved a plan to expand the Controversial Oil pipeline the 7000000000 dollar project will link canadas landlocked oil fields were a major port its faced opposition from environmentalists those are the headlines the big picture is up next. The world is slowly waking up to the growing impact of ai. This exhibition in london is all about our relationship to Computer Technology but ai remains in its infancy still struggling through glitches in the system yet were handing more and more decisionmaking over to the algorithm. Im Corey Kreider im a human rights lawyer i investigated a drone strike in yemen that killed my client faisal banally jobbers family what i found was a semiautomated targeting system used to describe who was and wasnt a threat but as the big picture showed previously on the world according to ai Artificial Intelligence isnt just used in military targeting but in everyday policing as well in this episode will delve deeper into the power potential and prejudice of ai as people seek to use it to shape our world. Were. One of the best established blind spots where the police have been seeking to use algorithmic material to accelerate and inform their practice is predictive policing so the way that it works is this lets say that youve got a historically over Police Community a community who are Poor Community of color the algorithm takes that data and basically turns around and says you went there before you probably want to go there again and so what everybody found and study after study has shown this is that it amplifies the next celebrate the process of over policing communities who are already over policed. In the United States the history of Law Enforcement has an unfortunate link to racism going right back to the era of slavery. In the 18th century groups of white men on horseback paddy rollers as they were known would go out on patrol looking for in slave people whod fled to freedom. If caught those whod run away would be horrifically beaten mutilated or killed. The paddy rollers would be assigned an area to patrol. It was known as their beat. There is no question that policing in the us contacts certainly has grown out of slave catching so lets go back to their original origins people who tried to escape and being enslaved were often hunted down and brought back into some type of system of control. When slavery was abolished the patty rollers would evolve into what became formalized police units and they didnt just abandon the road beats. Just as before africanamericans continue to bear the brunt of repressive Police Attention. With every crime recorded every stop and search every arrest every sentence a criminal history has been recorded data has been generated data that in the 21st century has been used to make predictions about the future of crime. Were now in the era of predictive policing. The got its start in los angeles with the l. A. P. D. Around 2012011 was actually the brainchild of an anthropologist and a mathematician brantingham and George Miller were 2. And of social scientists who are studying crime patterns and they realize that certain kinds of crimes are sort of viral are most contagious in their way so if theres one burglary in an area its actually statistically more likely that theyll be other burglaries in that area as they came up with an algorithm and they pitched this the l. A. P. D. And the l. A. P. D. Would went with their 1st experiments to see if it worked and for them it worked enough that it began and it suddenly took off. The research that went into jeffrey brennans algorithm was for the most part funded by the pentagon. His initial work used military data to forecast insurgent attacks in places the u. S. Had invaded such as iraq and afghanistan. But his focus shifted from battlefields abroad to supposedly enemies at home. He created a Company Called credible that uses data from u. S. Police departments to tell Us Police Departments where to look for criminality. What happens is that when. Vendors show these tools to the police the police say thats exactly what we were going to do. And sometimes we describe this as selection bias meets confirmation bias and they live happily ever after the idea that we use Historical Data to train machines and algorithm to predict into the future is very important so for example if you live in a community that has historically been over policed you are more likely to have your algorithms point right back to those communities that have been over policed if you have people who have been over arrested like africanamericans and latinos and degenerates people then your ai is going to point to those people once you feed that data and say ok i see theres more crime here let me go find some more. Well guess what youre going to find if you go look for more crime you are going to find more crime where you look for it and not where you dont look for it. But then they added in this extra element that every time there is a Police Contact you get an extra point. So in some ways theyve created an almost selffulfilling prophecy for the people because police are directed to go find the people with the most points then they go find the person who has most points and then the person gets extra points so tomorrow where are they going to go this guys extra point the consequence of that is that the database starts accumulating a lot higher fraction of all the crimes committed by black people than committed by white people so you turn algorithm loose on that itll say wow black people are really dangerous but we can ignore white people. So what happens is that. The algorithm. Calcifies or embodies the bias in the policing. I there for a really good summation and really going to be there. Yeah lets go. On is one of the lead organizers of the stop l. A. P. D. Spying coalition a collective that campaigns against what it believes to be growing Police Surveillance and criminalization of the local community in 2018 the coalition took the Los Angeles Police department to court forcing it to release the details of its Predictive Policing Program theres 2 layers to put it to policing one is a community in a Location Based where algorithms are used and the Company Principal has developed that algorithm which was owned by Jeffrey Brown think it was a professor of anthropology and has a long history himself how this thing was created on the on the feeds of afghanistan and iraq directly coming from the border from the war zones and the other piece is operational laser which is a person in a Location Base for the police in program lou. Stands for los angeles strategic extraction and Restoration Program and the reason why its called laser is that the creators of lasers said that we wanted to go into the community with medical type precision and extract tumors out of the Community Like lead from a decision thats where they came up with the act and so they came of the acronym as people are tumors the exact fact i think is not really. What credible and laser claim to offer is a one stop crime prediction shop the pitch is to tell police not just where crime will occur but also who might commit crimes in the future. The l. A. P. D. Was using these technologies to decide where to deploy their police patrols. Focusing resources on socalled crime hotspots flagged by these. So this is all the hot spots for a particular time period hot spots are created by the algorithm the prep for longer where they use the information long term crime history or short term crime history and then they create these 505500 square foot hotspots on what basis how are they deciding this so the world to put it very bluntly theres a lot of pseudo science and now its being presented as these computers are released neutral and they would predict where crime may happen. But predictive policing doesnt just flag up a place with laser it also sticks to a person the l. A. P. D. Maintain something called a chronic offenders bulletin these bulletins are undisclosed reports on socalled persons of interest people the Police Believe to be likely to break the law. This risk is calculated using a points based formula based on data from Police Records field interviews and arrest reports this is pulled together. And scored by algorithmic software created by the defense contractor pal and here a company with close ties to the u. S. Military. So how do you get yourself on to the Laser Systems are these other things that identified these risks so if youre stopped and a field interview cards filled one point so if you know there is it or if the police stop stop youve got a point one point immediately you get a point and this individual was stopped the same day 3 times so the treat its a 3. 2 right there if there had been a previous arrest with a gun 5 points if you had any Violent Crime 500 parole and probation is 54 and and identified is again is gang affiliated 5 point. When it comes to the chronic offenders bulletin points can mean prison but its not just about locking people up for hemant the data suggests increased Police Attention at the borders of a historically deprived area called skid row. Which helps keep the poor contained from the more affluent neighborhoods nearby. So this is like a beachhead so think of the defense of financial district yet from poor people you know when we talk about hot spots you know you will see the dirty divide how the proximity of extreme wealth and extreme poverty coexist right here about 2 blocks from. Absolutely. It was going oh man doing good to me and corey general. Secretary of. The building right there. I meet Steve Richardson who goes by his street name general doe gun hes a former prisoner and skid row resident who now works with the coalition campaigning for greater protection for the local community. Say you guys have been doing work on this predictive policing stuff right what does that look like out here on the street to people who live here so predictive policing rolls up and a lot of weight because i mean skid row is ground 00 all experiments that happen you know so this is poor folks of course so all a little programs l. A. P. D. Spy programs everything that they come out with is 1st tested right here a day 1st last to say for seriousness right here was grow 110 x. A rope maker the most told this community not only in america but 2nd in the world to baghdad got all kind of patrols on skid row so we got the cops on motorcycles we got regular cars we got. We got detail cops theres all polish like a 15 block area what are cops on horses right smack in the middle of the house you know they have no things that continue to come out here of a lot. About 80 percent of people here are black right about 80. People suffer from something. Mobile disability maybe physical you know semi or mental and all of us is full of. The most arrested person on skid row was a woman 8 and moody sousa rested 1081081084 violating 4118 right 4118 day is up with this book called to say you can sit sleep a lie on public sidewalk so our only crime was she was homeless and have anywhere to go and was forced to sleep in public space she got arrested 118. 00 times for being 108 a year just for just being in public space and it was all over you know based on a lot of predictive stuff like that and the point you you doeg on and you have and are making is that this is a practice that goes way back right over policing in this Community Goes back decades and then that information from that then gets fed into the computer and the computer turns around and says well go back and do some more of the same thing right now and the computer before the information gets in the algorithm is designed for policing so the algorithm would create outcomes that an agency wants to achieve and this is really the key point and the outcome that the agency wants to achieve in this community is cleansing and damage when. We walk further along the tense began to thin out as to the local residents gathered on the sidewalk were its obvious were approaching the outer limits of skid row the hotspot boundary hammond had pointed out earlier. This is like if on the storm a host of hot spots that a person from skid row would be walking into and this is where you will have more policing waiting for people who are for him than waiting for people to give them tickets waiting for people to throw them against the wall right. For people to intimidate and harass and demand to believe the neighborhood. But few weeks after we left skid row the l. A. P. D. Announced that it was canceling the Laser Program the pushback worked police admitted the data was inconsistent but the l. A. P. D. Says the predictive policing tool pred pull is still in operation. So lets think about the incentive structures with some of the predictive policing tools that weve been talking about what does it say about the incentives and the problems were going to have with these tools that youve got counterinsurgency software then essentially used for Law Enforcement purposes i hate to have such a sinister. Interpretation but i think its about opening up new markets to sell this software to 0 and Law Enforcement in the last is you know been a great market for lots of military technology is quite frankly i think theres actually the opposite incentive to get it they have the incentive to get it wrong Predictive Policing Software has an incentive to make the sale with police so their incentive is to is to make predictions that are as close as possible to what the police already believe is correct so given that its really hard to know. If ai has been tried on representative data or or not if we have real reason to suspect for example that there might be bias than isnt there a question about whether the system should be used at all well i think thats the fundamental issue is that were seeing the deployment of all kinds of automated decisionmaking systems or ai over we want to kind of characterize it and we dont know the effects until after the fact after the damage has been done is primarily how were learning quite frankly about what doesnt work and i think it goes far beyond bias i mean were talking about aggregating data about us Building Data pro

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