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DEMAND LIMITS ON POLICE AI
The use of artificial intelligence tools has proliferated throughout police work without oversight, testing, and transparency.
This includes discriminatory "predictive policing" algorithms, which police use to predict where and when crime will be committed, who will commit it, and even who the victims might be.
AI is already influencing decisions about people's freedom, safety, and legal outcomes.
Serious consequences demand proper accountability and governance. Oversight of these systems is long overdue.
Liberty is calling for the Government to:
Tell the public: Police must be fully transparent about their use of AI
Clean data, clear limits: Binding rules on what data police can feed into AI systems
Test before deployment and keep testing: Independent testing must be mandatory before any AI system is used on communities, with continuous monitoring and a ban on systems found to be unsafe or discriminatory.
A human must always be accountable : Every AI-assisted decision must have a named, accountable human behind it and clear consequences for misuse.
Train the officers using it: Every officer using AI must understand how it works, its limitations, and their legal responsibilities when acting on its outputs.
If you can't audit it, you can't use it: Every AI system used by police must produce a clear, traceable record of how decisions were reached.
The right to know and to challenge: Anyone affected by an AI-assisted decision must be told and given enough information to understand it and challenge it.
A regulator with real teeth: The Government must establish an independent, properly resourced regulator to enforce every one of these standards.
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