Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. ‘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.