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Yes, I am.
There are a few associations between the subject of this thread and marxism.
The most obvious being the opinion that one can create a machine that will transform society's hierarchy, and using AI in law enforcement is actually part of that.
The less obvious being that USSR's catching up game, where they'd blindly copy (sometimes mostly in appearances) things first popularized in the West via market processes, is similar to what "AI"'s do.
Another being that preventing a crime via some predictor can't be verified against reality, because, ahem, it's preventive. Just like conviction plans for police can't be checked against reality.
Another being that police discomforting or even surveilling people based on some predictor is almost a punishment, for something they haven't done. It's like a thought crime. It brings one's rights to the level of what a USSR citizen had, basically.
Or to the level of a black person in modern Capitalist America. Your point isn't about communism, it's about authoritarianism.
Of course.
However, one can recall that Democrats before the "switch" were kinda racist and kinda liberal at the same time. So it wasn't a complete switch between the parties. And that this is because that kind of "liberal" is, similarly to marxism, about having some "more fair" society, but only the way you want, impeding your opponents trying to change their parts of society the way they want.
That my point is more about fragmentation. Say, from what I've read, it seems that somewhere in 70s you could find towns and districts where you'd be absolutely abused for being Black and there, but you could also find normal ones.
The issue with trying to solve the problem of the former by some centralized pressure is that it creates the same instruments that could be used to "solve" the "problem" of the latter, and worse - introduce new problems.
More than that, structurally it averages to the worse, because crowds are as smart as the dumbest and worst person in them.