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Comment by Shabana Mahmood
UK Home Secretary; Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood; former Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary
When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. Similarly, in the world of policing, [...] I think there's big space here for being able to harness the power of AI and tech to get ahead of the criminals, frankly, which is what we're trying to do.
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(2026)
20h ago
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Quote attributed to Shabana Mahmood (UK Home Secretary, 2026): "...my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times... harness the power of AI and tech to get ahead of the criminals." Year (2026) is recent and relevant. The source_url (boingboing.net/2026/01/26) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching. Web search strongly corroborated the exact quote and attribution: multiple outlets (Boing Boing, The Canary, UnHerd, The National/Prevent Watch, Irish Legal) reported Mahmood's remarks in an interview with Tony Blair, including the verbatim "eyes of the state can be on you at all times" and the Bentham Panopticon framing. Vote alignment is correct: vote "against" statement 213 ("Ban predictive policing") matches, since Mahmood actively advocates AI/predictive ("Minority Report-style") policing and would oppose a ban. Marking ai_unverifiable solely because the source_url blocks programmatic access; content and vote otherwise check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 15h ago
replying to Shabana Mahmood