"Police reports play a crucial role in our justice system," ACLU speech, privacy and technology senior policy analyst and report author Jay Stanley wrote. "Concerns include the unreliability and biased nature of AI, evidentiary and memory issues when officers resort to this technology, and issues around transparency."
The ACLU has little faith that Draft One will avoid leading to potential civil rights violations and civil liberty issues." In the end, we do not think police departments should use this technology," Stanley concluded.
It's worth pointing out that Axon doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to thinking critically about innovations: Most of the company's ethics board resigned in 2022 when Axon announced plans to equip remote-control drones with tasers.
Given the importance of police reports to investigations and prosecutions and the unreliability already noted in other forms of law enforcement AI, the concerns with the Draft One system are significant.
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