Artificial Intelligence Looks to Deter Crime

Humans could use artificial intelligence to predict bad behavior and inform criminals about their location.

An artificial intelligence can predict a criminal’s actions as well as avoid them, and he’s likely to be a robot. But it’s not programmed to replace police, firefighters, or the ability to save a child. Instead, it is geared toward predictively detecting and deterring crime.

Tom de la Cruz, co-founder of Lighthouse, and Taylor Hitt, Lighthouse co-founder and chief technology officer, discussed the future of human-level artificial intelligence at an AI News Conference on Sunday. They added that this intelligent technology would help criminals avoid detection by providing warnings before an incident occurs. “We believe that the novel, dramatic leaps in artificial intelligence are coming quickly,” de la Cruz said. “We are embarking on a new frontier in AI, not a new age of AI.”

“We won’t be replaced by machines. We are just moving the chess board closer to the gold rush.” Hitt said. AI, what humans are working with is intelligent rebot. What human really in charge of is about challenging data. It requires insights, like sounds and smells and all sorts of things that cannot be inputted into an algorithm.”

This technology, called a “theater of the mind,” or the ability to detect human’s thoughts, their emotional state, what they are thinking and what they are doing, would give prosecutors and the police the ability to know when someone is going to commit a crime. It also would know if a man is headed to a wedding or a funeral to prevent him from committing a crime at those times.

It also could prevent violence or victims from being physically attacked. It could see a person’s communication of his threat to another person and determine if he’s dangerous and keep him from reacting. Other uses would include soldiers, and law enforcement and instead of having to ask a sniper to pinpoint an enemy’s location and a bomb disposal squad to defuse a bomb, the AI can handle the entire operation.