In the 2002 Sci-if action film, Minority Report, Tom Cruise’s John Anderton is on the run after being (falsely?) accused of committing a crime in the future.
The film, excellently shot by Steven Spielberg and based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, tackled the topic of police states and the morality of man.
Now the CIA is using an AI to predict social unrest, extremist activities, and other threats to national security almost a week in advance – stopping crimes before they happen, reports Inverse.
They are doing this by “combining lots of data, machine learning, and other technologies with old school know-how”.
“Speaking at the Next Tech event on Tuesday, CIA deputy director for digital innovation Andrew Hallman said that the agency is using these techniques to great effect in the Directorate for Digital Innovation, which was established in 2015 to help the CIA embrace new tech.”
“We have, in some instances, been able to improve our forecast to the point of being able to anticipate the development of social unrest and societal instability some I think as near as three to five days out,” Hallman said at the event.
We don’t see the technology making its way to South Africa any time soon, but it does show how the lines between reality and science-fiction are becoming increasingly blurred.
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