In the film Minority Report, Tom Cruise leads a police department that predicts crime before it happens – but is artificial intelligence now making this a reality?

Such technology has already been used successfully, and studies have shown that it can work to predict crime with up to 90% accuracy. But the technology is controversial, as it holds the potential to build on existing bias around how police forces deal with certain areas or communities.

If racist police officers target certain areas, for example, and their arrest data is used to train AI, the AI could direct even more officers to those areas. In the European Union’s recent AI act, politicians banned systems for predictive policing, alongside other technology such as emotion recognition software.

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Police normally predict crime in a very basic way, by overlaying reports of crime on maps to reveal hotspots where crime regularly occurs. But AI can analyse datasets to find patterns and predict where crime is likely to occur in the near future.

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