If you imagine a world where law enforcement used in new technology to monitor and predict

crime, it may sound something like this.

Within just one month under the pre-crime program, the murder rate in the District of Columbia

was reduced 90%.

They were going to be waiting for me in the car.

It was going to rape me.

I was going to be stabbed.

I'm going to be here.

Within a year, pre-crime effectively stopped murder in our nation's capital.

In the six years we've been conducting our little experiment.

There hasn't been a single murder.

And now pre-crime can work for you.

In the 2002 movie Minority Report, eye scans are an everyday occurrence and a pre-crime

unit catches criminals before they commit murder.

In 2023, that world doesn't exist, but it may not be far off.

Today, law enforcement uses artificial intelligence for facial recognition, predictive policing,

and more.

And if we look outside the US, we're seeing a growing number of countries using AI for extensive

surveillance.

But research reveals there is bias built into AI platforms like facial recognition, which

is less accurate for darker skin tones.

And there are more questions than answers when it comes to the ethics of it all.

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