Monitoring
AI and hyper-automation
Robot
judges are coming. A police force in England is set to become the
first in Europe to use artificial intelligence (AI) to assess whether
suspects pose too high a risk to be set free.
Durham
Police are set to introduce a harm assessment risk tool, known as
Hart, to classify arrested individuals as of low, medium or high risk
of reoffending if released.
The
program should be launched in the summer and works by taking into
account the suspect’s gender, postcode and offending history.
The
system is the brainchild of Cambridge University computer scientists
and was first road tested in 2013. Since then the algorithm has
helped police classify the risk status of offenders by monitoring
them for more than two years to test whether or not they reoffended.
The
project was deemed such a success it will now be actually used in
decision making.
“It’s
not the ultimate decision maker, it is a support for the officers and
the limitations are it’s only plugged into Durham Constabulary data
— not any wider data,” said Durham Police head of criminal
justice Sheena Urwin. “The custody sergeant must also consider
other factors that they are obliged to consider as part of their
statutory function. Certainly there’s interest. About four or five
forces from all over the UK — it’s not surprising.”
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