Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes
In Michigan, incarcerated people are separated into five housing levels according to their security classification. In the past, screenings were performed by a committee of staff appointed by the Warden at each facility. Now, it seems the state wants to outsource that decision — or at least have it be heavily informed by — a non-profit tech company called Recidiviz.
Recidiviz began as a data organization project at Google, meant to “uncover how technology could standardize criminal justice data and improve the system nationwide.” Its AI-integrated software platform is said to perform features like identifying individuals eligible for state-offered programs, reclassification, or release, and coordinate access to resources like transitional housing and employment.
In a press release, MDOC said the Recidiviz software will be used to “optimize placement of incarcerated individuals” starting with a pilot program in a number of men’s facilities beginning in December. The state agency notes that the AI tool is expected to “improve MDOC’s ability to more accurately predict incarcerated individuals’ risk of future violence by approximately 30 percent,” though how the state arrived at that vague figure is unclear.
IDF ends controversial 11-day Hebron operation that followed deadly shooting attack
The Israeli military on Monday morning wrapped up an 11-day operation in Hebron, launched following a deadly shooting attack at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the West Bank city, after the political leadership finally approved the withdrawal of troops.
During the attack on October 23, Hebron residents Mohammad Jaaba and Firas Jaaba killed Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem, and wounded three other troops, before they were shot dead.
In response, the Israel Defense Forces said it demolished illegally built structures in the vicinity of the checkpoint and raided the neighborhood where the two gunmen lived to raze their homes, while also operating in other areas in the city.
Evil in Our Midst: Twisted Group Proudly Displays Pro-Abortion Artist’s Satanic Statue Outside Southside St. Louis City Office
They are evil and don’t even hide it anymore.
And, this is in St. Louis City in red state Missouri. The traveling statue was previously displayed in New York and Houston.
The “Witness” statue in St. Louis is an 18‑foot golden sculpture by Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander.
The statue was installed at Rung for Women in the Fox Park neighborhood of south St. Louis. It depicts a levitating female figure with braided ram‑horn‑like hair, root‑like arms, and a collar referencing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People’s Mouths in Real Time
Microsoft just filed a patent for an AI product that would be able to transform live video in real time to alter speakers’ words and faces.
The patent, as first flagged by patent-tracker Patentlyze, is described by its inventors as a “near real-time artificial intelligence (AI) enhancement of video or augmented reality (AR) presentations of live events.”
Using AI agents, the system would identify and alter or remove certain words, while editing a speaker’s face and mouth to match. The agents would rely on set parameters or user profiles to make the changes, and would also edit the video and audio just before and after a removed or replaced word to allow for “smooth transitions.”
Russia suffers record 54,400 casualties in October, Ukraine says — and 2.1M since war began
Russia suffered more than 54,000 casualties in October, the highest of any month since the war began, according to Ukraine — with Moscow losing even more ground under Kyiv’s counterattacks.
October saw 54,400 Kremlin troops killed, wounded or gone missing in action, about 8,170 more than the prior month, according to Ukraine’s General Staff.
“This is a record for any month of the full-scale war,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky touted on Telegram. “There is also a record for daily losses: the Russian army lost 2,250 people on October 21.”
Fake alerts warn of nuclear danger as Ukraine and Russia report emergency app hacks
Nuclear danger, radiation threat and street combat: Ukrainians received a wave of messages Sunday night that raised alarm with a series of grave — and baseless — warnings.
Authorities said the country’s emergency alert application had been targeted in a cyberattack, and hours later Russia said its own alert system had also been hacked. The dueling accusations came just as a rare humanitarian ceasefire between the two sides ended, raising fears of intensified fighting rather than a move toward broader peace.
Residents in Ukraine have become used to the unsettling alerts that buzz their phones with news of incoming Russian missiles and drones — a service millions rely on to seek shelter before the attacks hit their cities. But the warnings Sunday night immediately stood out.
Investor Says We’re Rapidly Approaching the Point At Which Economic Systems Collapse Under the Weight of AI
At this point, the parade of doomsayers warning of the collapse of the AI bubble is almost endless.
Renowned financial commentators like Harris Kupperman have warned that the math on data center investments is unsustainable, economists like Michael Roberts have called AI the “biggest economic bet in US history,” and even the International Monetary Fund has begun fretting that the world economy is on a knife’s edge.
But in the ongoing AI gold rush, the wealthy and powerful keep pumping money into AI and its attendant industries anyway.
Now, crypto investor and finance media guru Raoul Pal is warning of his own kind of AI doomsday — but one where an AI takeover, not a bursting bubble, brings the conventional economy to its knees.
“The next four years are going to feel very different to anything we’ve lived through,” Pal wrote in a post on X-formerly-Twitter.
Myanmar military airstrikes kill at least 15 civilians, including 12 in Rakhine State: Report
At least 15 civilians, including an infant, were killed and 32 others injured when Myanmar military aircraft bombed four townships across Rakhine and Karenni states on Sunday, local media reported.
The airstrikes hit residential areas and a maternity facility across Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Pauktaw and Kyaukphyu townships, killing 12 in Rakhine State, The Irrawaddy, an independent media outlet focusing on Myanmar and Southeast Asia, reported on Monday.
On Saturday, three children were killed and eight others injured when Myanmar military aircraft bombed a school in eastern Loikaw township, Karenni State, as children gathered for a nutrition program during a holiday.
Bolivia declares emergency as El Nino intensifies
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has declared a national state of emergency to mobilize resources and strengthen disaster response as the country braces for severe droughts and flooding linked to the El Nino weather phenomenon.
“This will be a phenomenon that will have very severe impacts in terms of drought and floods, and we need the cooperation of all institutions,” Paz said.