Grand title for a site, but why are we doing it?
Machine learning and AI in policing is an inevitable path of a technologically advancing world, but the key is to do it ethically.
It is an unfortunate fact that there is never enough time for all the jobs or enough money to hire enough people to help out, especially in the public sector where the complexity is always growing with the population.
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Policing is at the forefront of this struggle and the forces are looking to technology to help alleviate the pressure. At the same time technology, especially in the field of Machine Learning, is advancing at an unprecedented rate. It is becoming more available to everyone through no-code solutions and programming packages that reduce the need to do a lot of detailed programming. This is leading to:
A knowledge gap that can be exploited for malicious use
An ethical gap where rapid development leads to lack of understanding of underlying data and processes
Police need to keep up to date in order improve their own internal productivity and counteract malicious efforts to exploit the technology.
This is where this site comes in
We were funded by STAR to examine the ethical implications of a single algorithm being developed by a police force and to develop a framework guide for AI in policing in general. Coming in with a long career in ML, but in other domains, I found some aspects of the project easy, but as usual finding the right keywords to discover the right background literature proved difficult. Even after a few months of research, I'm discovering new government pages for ethical AI and interesting initiatives around UK. We are making this site to:
Help bring all the ML and ethical AI literature and techniques relevant to the policing domain into one place.
Allow people directly involved in the nitty gritty of policing algorithms to share their experiences and advice.
Provide a domain-specific set of guidelines for ethical development of public-facing ML algorithms, which will also allow compliance with government guidelines. We're calling this RUDI for Rationale, Unification, Development, and Implementation.
Join us to make a community for responsible policing
There are so many interesting topics we can cover together, message us with your ideas and we'll work with you to make them into content.
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