An artificial intelligence programme designed to predict serious violence has been scrapped after its findings were found to be wildly inaccurate.
The predictive programme, piloted by West Midlands and West Yorkshire police, was claimed to be up to 75 per cent accurate in pinpointing those likely to commit knife and gun offences.
However, the Most Serious Violence (MSV) tool, as it is known, has been abandoned after it proved “unfeasible” in making accurate predictions, the technology magazine Wired reported.
It was part of a Home Office-funded programme which has given police forces nearly £10 million to test artificial intelligence devices that aim to predict crime and therefore ultimately reduce it.
The MSV tool used existing data to assess people who had already come into