With policing in America, Canada and the UK among the many countries already looking to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) for a range of uses, University of Manitoba Assistant Professor Tandeep Sidhu and Brandon University Professor Christopher J. Schneider argue that the growing and largely unregulated use of AI in law enforcement is damaging police legitimacy, and suggest there is already compelling evidence that the deployment of such technology by police should be prohibited.
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.
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While debates about bias and problems with AI are ongoing, it’s clear that the selective use of AI by police is inherently biased and must therefore immediately cease.
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.
Procedural justice, or the perception of fairness, is key to police legitimacy. It’s maintained both through unbiased law enforcement practices and the sharing of accurate information with the public and courts.
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