Is AI Being Used To Create The Records You Request From Police Departments?

MuckRock recently posted that "police departments may have quietly turned off accountability tools that indicate which police reports were written by AI."

The post shared an article from Mother Jones that goes in depth to explain the following: "Once best known for developing the Taser, Axon has transformed into a $50 billion military and law enforcement tech giant, providing more than 5,000 police departments across the country with a suite of cloud-based products to manage evidence collection and storage. Draft One, the AI tool, connects with the company’s body cameras and evidence storage service to write police reports with little human intervention. At least 21 departments have experimented with the software."

"In practice, police using Axon’s product have reduced or eliminated human oversight, deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which reports were generated by AI." Read the complete article here.