Peers challenge police use of artificial intelligence

The Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee warned that the lack of oversight meant "users are in effect making it up as they go along". The cross-party group said AI had the potential to improve people's lives but could have "serious implications" for human rights and civil liberties in the justice system. "Algorithms are being used to improve crime detection, aid the security categorisation of prisoners, streamline entry clearance processes at our borders and generate new insights that feed into the entire criminal justice pipeline," the peers said. Scrutiny was not happening to ensure new tools were "safe, necessary, proportionate and effective". "Instead, we uncovered a landscape, a new Wild West, in which new technologies are developing at a pace that public awareness, government and legislation have not kept up with."