Prisoners' risk of reoffending was being judged by AI tools The unregulated use of AI in the U.K. justice system is potentially creating miscarriages of justice, according to a new report from the House of Lords. The report cites several examples of AI systems being used by the police, prison and probation services without "any thorough evaluation of their efficacy". "Proper trials methodology is fully embedded into medical science but there are no minimum scientific or ethical standards that an AI tool must meet before it can be used in the criminal justice sphere," the Lords' Justice and Home Affairs Committee found. The committee further warns that "without sufficient safeguards, supervision, and caution, advanced technologies may have a chilling effect on a range of human rights, undermine the fairness of trials, weaken the rule of law, further exacerbate existing inequalities, and fail to produce the promised effectiveness and efficiency gains". The report makes specific mention of questionable uses of AI in U.K. law enforcement.