Durham police will use AI to assess risk of criminal suspects TheINQUIRER

DURHAM POLICE will look to artificial intelligence (AI) to help it make decide whether to remand or release criminal suspects. The AI system, which has been tested by the Durham Police Force since 2013 and trained on five year's worth of data, assigns a risk category to suspects. The BBC reports that the system has proved itself to be 98 per cent accurate in assessing suspects as low risk suspects, and 88 per cent accurate in flagging high-risk ones, although it is not made clear exactly how this is measured. The AI system, known as Harm Assessment Risk Tool (HART), has been tested by custody officers in the course of their work, but has not yet assisted their decisions. However, this is about to change, said Sheena Urwin, head of criminal justice at Durham Constabulary.