UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence

lifeisstillgood

I think this is going to lead towards companies and governments starting to build their own data centres for this kind of thing (reviewing millions of emails to find the smoking gun is what the cops will want to do as will both sides in a civil case). The thing is no-one (probably not OpenAI) wants to send kidnapping footage to data centre in Texas for a Manchester case. The thing we are all finding now (software devs) is that AI is great but boy is it pricey if we want anything useful … And walking through millions of pages of digital evidence is going to cost, and I think governments would rather buy a rack of H100s and spread the cost. So is the national AI drive one to be able to build frontier models, or one to just build data centre or one to build a chips capability a few years behind ?

dgellow

> Another case saw half a million e-books of data translated instantly, leading to the arrest of a serious organised crime gang Does someone have details on this? I don’t see how ebooks translation relates to arresting organized crime gang

p0w3n3d

Wow UK you went full 1984 + usual suspect + minority report

Havoc

I don't even want to fkin know. Literally everything the UK gov has announced on online anything lately has been dystopian misguided bullshit.

varispeed

Question whether PoliceAI is going to be deployed to investigate corruption in government and civil service? Thought so...

firebaze

The UK genuinely has become the most scary country of all western democracies to me. I can't comprehend how this happened, and is still happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_sexual_abuse_cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile_sexual_abuse_scan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit... (This link list is just the tip of an iceberg) And now they changed lanes to fully protect themselves against people who may uncover such cases.

radium3d

Didn't know that the trip we took there a few years ago was one of the last to see UK just chillin' Now we have democracy manipulation spearheaded by AI bot manipulation of their very own citizenry. Not limited to UK, USA is deep in it too.

Accacin

I'm pretty disappointed to see all this nonsense about the UK on Hacker News. Like the UK being the most scary country of all Western democracies? Have you not see what's happening in the USA? The US, Europe, and UK are all trying to implement basically the same ideas. Now, I completely disagree with the current government in pretty much anything related to "protect the children", but the hyperbole is insane. Finally, have you seen the UK's track record with IT projects? This is never going anywhere. £75 is nothing in the grand scheme of things.

sph

Is Priti Patel still running the Home Office? I honestly couldn’t tell the difference in policies between BoJo and Starmer. What do you prefer, authoritarianism in red, authoritarianism in blue, or a Nigel the Trump bootlicker? At this point I’d rather have the monarchy back, at least you knew where is the class system you’re supposed to fit, and whose boot to lick.