14 min

Can computers predict crime‪?‬ Oxford Sparks Big Questions

    • Natural Sciences

You can’t turn on the TV or read a newspaper article without a daily reporting of crime. As technology and computer algorithms advance we want to know if there will be a computer model that could know us better than ourselves.
In this episode of the Big Questions podcast we visited Seena Fazel, Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford to ask the question: Can computers predict crime?

You can’t turn on the TV or read a newspaper article without a daily reporting of crime. As technology and computer algorithms advance we want to know if there will be a computer model that could know us better than ourselves.
In this episode of the Big Questions podcast we visited Seena Fazel, Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford to ask the question: Can computers predict crime?

14 min

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