Cops of the future are equipped with artificial intelligence. Face recognition and algorithms fed with police data promise to track down future burglars and to locate violent people. The promise is great but can predictive policing - police work based on predictions of crime - really lower the level of crime? Besides data protection concerns, the question arises as to who benefits from it - and who suffers from it. In the USA, you can already see that algorithms partially reinforce racist and discriminative structures. Can similar conditions occur in Germany at all? And what happens to our society when the presumption of inocence is no longer the highest legal good? Do we want to live in such a preventive society?
Digitaler Salon – Catch me if you scan
Wednesday, 28 March 2018 | 7 p.m. (ical/gcal)
Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) Französische Straße 9 | 10117 Berlin
The host Teresa Sickert will discuss this topic with:
• Matthias Heeder, documentary filmmaker, PreCrime
• Lorenz Matzat, software entrepreneur and founder, Algorithmwatch
Adrian Haase, associated doctoral student at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, will introduce the topic.
