Artificial Intelligence and Law Enforcement Risks

Artificial intelligence ("AI") has shown great promise in helping to solve many of life's challenges. Advances in computing along with the availability of an endless data stream has made artificial intelligence the topic of conversations in every corner of society and within practically every industry imaginable. Consistent with AI's ubiquity, law enforcement agencies at all levels and in many parts of the world have begun to consider or have already implemented the use of artificial intelligence to assist or entirely rely upon in making law enforcement-related decisions that until recently were entirely human-based. While on the surface AI appears to be an effective tool for law enforcement agencies, the use of artificial intelligence in its current form has already exposed serious flaws with respect to human rights and related areas. This technology has produced outcomes that are very worrisome and that require immediate attention and analysis.