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Tandeep Sidhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba

How AI-powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police

Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated the cultural landscape. Uptake across various sectors, including law enforcement, quickly followed, usually with minimal foresight and little to no guardrails, like effective policies or laws, to govern AI use.

The largely unregulated use of AI in law enforcement is deeply concerning; it jeopardizes police legitimacy and could compromise the integrity of the justice system because it means the public cannot trust that evidence used by police is not compromised by AI.

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