"According , when ICE identifies a recruit with prior law enforcement experience, it assigns them to its "Law Enforcement Officer Program." This is a four-week online course meant to streamline training for those already familiar with the legal aspects of the gig. Everyone else gets shipped off to ICE's Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia for an eight-week in-person academy. This more rigorous training includes courses in immigration law, gun handling, physical fitness exams, and more."
"Yet rather than assign a human to make that call, ICE's human resources department outsourced the task to an untested large language model (LLM). This AI system was supposed to scan new recruits' resumes in order to place them in one of the two programs; instead, it automatically flagged the "majority of new applicants" for the fast-track course regardless of their prior experience, officials familiar with the system told NBC."
""They were using AI to scan resumes and found out a bunch of the people who were LEOs weren't LEOs," one official said. Basically, the AI model had approved any resume containing the word "officer" for the LEO program - which opened the door to anyone from a "mall security officer" to those who simply wrote about their aspirations to become ICE officers to take the expedited training course."
ICE separates recruits into a four-week online Law Enforcement Officer Program for those with prior law enforcement experience and an eight-week in-person academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia for others. The in-person academy covers immigration law, gun handling, physical fitness, and other rigorous topics. ICE's human resources outsourced resume screening to an untested large language model meant to assign recruits to the correct program. The AI flagged the majority of applicants for the fast-track by approving resumes containing the word "officer," allowing many with minimal or unrelated experience to be expedited. The agency is reassessing rosters and calling recruits back for additional training.
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