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China Created AI 'Prosecutor' That Can Charge People With Crimes (futurism.com) 79

In a scenario that's part "Robocop" and part "Minority Report," researchers in China have created an AI that can reportedly identify crimes and file charges against criminals. Futurism reports: The AI was developed and tested by the Shanghai Pudong People's Procratorate, the country's largest district public prosecution office, South China Morning Post reports. It can file a charge with more than 97 percent accuracy based on a description of a suspected criminal case. "The system can replace prosecutors in the decision-making process to a certain extent," the researchers said in a paper published in Management Review seen by SCMP.

The team built the machine off of an existing AI tool ominously called System 206. Prosecutors in China were already using the system to help assess evidence and determine whether or not a suspected criminal was dangerous to the public at large. However, it was fairly limited as it could not "participate in the decision-making process of filing charges and [suggesting] sentences," the team said in the paper. That would require the AI to be able to identify and remove irrelevant information in a case, and process human language in its neural network. The new AI developed in Shanghai is able to assess case files in such a manner. In fact, the machine can identify and charge criminals with the district's eight most common crimes: credit card fraud, gambling, reckless driving, intentional assault, obstructing an officer, theft, fraud, and even political dissent.

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China Created AI 'Prosecutor' That Can Charge People With Crimes

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  • by rbrander ( 73222 ) on Monday December 27, 2021 @06:29PM (#62120541) Homepage

    I could write an AI to charge the top levels of the PRC with crimes, by just scraping the morning news looking for a few keywords relating to summary executions, genocide, corrupt influence-selling. And it would be the proverbial very small shell script.

    • Pooh Bear would totally go Judge Dread on your ass, though.

      • Shuold I be worried if I am late returning a library book? e.g. 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

        For those science fiction buffs out there: Do you remember the short story that follows this very same line?

        • Shuold I be worried if I am late returning a library book?

          You should be very worried. Either the book was Selected Poems by Emperor Pooh, and you'll be scrutinized for depriving your entire community of His wisdom, or else it was some other book, which you were apparently so attached to that you didn't want to return it, and you might be in need of re-education.

  • by waspleg ( 316038 ) on Monday December 27, 2021 @06:29PM (#62120543) Journal

    especially now that Alibaba is being pressured to sell to Chinese billionaires, you know, the ones that are still in favor. [wikipedia.org]

    Also the Chinese court conviction rate for everything is just under 100%. [chinajusticeobserver.com]

    In China, the conviction rate was 99.965% in 2019 and 99.969% in 2018.

    The number of indicted criminal suspects and acquitted defendants in China in the last two years and the conviction rates we calculate are as follows:

    In 2019, 1,818,808 people are indicted by the Peopleâ(TM)s Procuratorate of China, among which 637 defendants are acquitted in the public prosecution, with a conviction rate of 99.965%.

    In 2018, 1,692,846 people are indicted by the Peopleâ(TM)s Procuratorate of China, among which 517 defendants are acquitted in the public prosecution, with a conviction rate of 99.969%.

    Who the fuck needs "AI" for that? Can we see BeauHD's tax returns? A fuck of a lot of PRO-CCP shit getting posted by them all of a sudden.

    • by tlhIngan ( 30335 ) <slashdot&worf,net> on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:37PM (#62120867)

      All Chinese media is CCP state media.

      China made it illegal for sites not funded by the CCP to report on Chinese news within China.

      I.e., if you're not being paid by the state, you can't report on news in China.

      So every news article from China is CCP propaganda. There are third party news organizations still gathering news, but they have to do their reports outside of China, and those people are basically being hunted down and expelled because they won't speak the party line.

      In other words, don't trust any positive Chinese news you read, it's probably propaganda.

      • Even the negative news is propaganda. If too many people are talking about it, they want people to hear the "truth" which will be less bad than the rumor/truth.

        If 1000 people die, check the news, oh, terrible news, big disaster, everybody so sad, 10 people died!

      • by waspleg ( 316038 )

        I agree, but the SCMP used to be HK based and was, at least considered to be, independent. But, that was pre-invasion by the PLA.

      • Recommended reading to help understand the structure, mission, and goals of Chinese State Media for everyone on this thread (to include our guest CCP shills, censors, and cheerleaders): https://clintwatts.substack.co... [substack.com] Cheers.
  • by sarren1901 ( 5415506 ) on Monday December 27, 2021 @06:30PM (#62120547)

    But I imagine Party Members won't have to deal with this wonderful AI judge. Fuck China.

    • by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 27, 2021 @06:47PM (#62120583)
      Why would they have to deal with it? It's totally accurate and no one in China would ever cover up mistakes that cost innocent lives. The Party Members are all paragons of moral righteousness and could never do anything that would run afoul of the law or social obligations. Everything China does is perfect and for the best.
  • It was inevitable (Score:5, Insightful)

    by taustin ( 171655 ) on Monday December 27, 2021 @06:33PM (#62120549) Homepage Journal

    The more they can automate the process of exerting power, the fewer people the one(s) at the top have to share it with. The ultimate goal is for the police, the courts and the prisons at all to be 100% automated with robots so that the dictator is unaccountable to anyone, ever. No more palace coups, ever again. Only slaves.

    And don't think that people in charge in other countries aren't taking notes.

  • Officer: "The suspect is said to have raped Indiana Jones."
    Steven Spielberg: "This is just a figure of speech and I reject it thoroughly!"
    AI Judge: "20 years of soap-picking for you!"
    Officer: "Did I mention the AI stands for Analogy-Induced?"

  • I guess you need to add some complex Xitler relationship logic as well - maybe that is what requires the AI algo.

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by arbiter1 ( 1204146 )
      I am sure that is the first line of the AI's code to check if they are a member of the ruling party and if they are drop all charges.
  • by mveloso ( 325617 ) on Monday December 27, 2021 @07:00PM (#62120611)

    The CCP doesn't need an excuse to do anything to anyone in the country. Why bother with the sham "charging with a crime/trial/incarceration" process at all?

  • by AlanObject ( 3603453 ) on Monday December 27, 2021 @07:49PM (#62120697)

    To test the system out, feed it the circumstances of the disappearance of Peng Shuai, the disappeared women's tennis star.

    Will it indict the former CCP high-ranking official? Or not.

    (think think think) .. didn't think so.

    • what disappearance? She's been in the public not long ago. And it's not like the US is much better, as it also prosecutes on a whim, if the public is screaming, even if the defendant is innocent, but hee, the public is screaming. And also not prosecuting when it is their own friends.. Personally I think AI can be a good tool for things like this, mind you, if it IS assisted by humans. Humans make a lot of mistakes because they miss stuff while reading or they ignore stuff or are even very biased..
  • Robocop,
    Robojudge,
    Robojail,
    What's missing? ("Profit" is there already.)

  • Maybe Mike will eventually turn against his creators?!

  • Excellent. Mankind evolves to the point where it reinvents Satan (seriously, a tireless prosecutor whose only purpose is to charge people with crimes...what idiot thought this one up?). 'Little horn' better watch out, he has serious competition.

  • “Show me the man and I'll show you the crime”

  • if (post.contains("Tiananmen") || post.contains("democracy") || post.contains("Peng Shaui") || post.contains("Xinjiang" || post.contains("Tibet")) {
    post.author.setGuilty(true);
    }

    • if (post.Contains("Winnie") || post.Contains("Pooh")) {
              post.author.sentence.years += 10; // How DARE they mock Great Leader!!!
      }

  • Because if they haven't they should.

  • by AndyKron ( 937105 ) on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:44AM (#62121329)
    Chinese people sure like being controlled by their government, or they'd do something about it.
  • Run the profiles of the past few decades worth of U.S. Presidents and members of Congress through the system. And then pick a bunch of random shmucks from society that haven't committed any serious crimes. There's your training data.

  • Until the AI can follow through on the cases and harvest the convicted criminals' organs and sell them to rich foreigners in exchange for much-needed foreign currency, it's never going to replace the human gestapo agents that are needed to serve the party's interests.
  • Since the Chinese government wants to treat it's citizens like robots, it makes a weird kind of sense that they'd create a robot to prosecute the robots.
  • FOR ALL citizen "c":
        if is_suspicious(c) then
            arrest(c);
            charge(c);
            convict(c);
            punish(c);
        endif
    endfor

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