Taser Company Axon Is Selling AI That Turns Body Cam Audio Into Police Reports trib.al/3FQLwSt

The new Centre for Police Productivity will:

📊 bring together data from forces across England and Wales to spot emerging crime trends
👮‍♀️ work with partners and forces to develop new tactics to tackle crime early on and save officer time

Read more 🔗 college.police.uk/article/police…

'in the longer term, the fight against explicit #AI images will face similar questions to other difficulties in the space: how do you limit a system you do not fully understand?' theguardian.com/technology/202…

Serious Fraud Office reviews cases after software problems via Financial Times 1/ on.ft.com/3Uo7QpI

New one from me in Science Magazine, on why we mustn't see the risks of AI in apocalyptic terms

I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday! I would like to thank my esteemed examiners, Dr Elizabeth Tiarks & Pete Fussey, for an insightful and enriching viva. And I will be forever grateful to Prof Marion Oswald, MBE & Prof. Chris Newman for being the best supervisory team!

Home Office 2024: 'chief constables will be given the responsibility of chairing the hearings... police leaders will be held increasingly accountable for their own officers and be able to influence any dismissal decisions impacting their own force.'

gov.uk/government/new…

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This is a quote for the ages on debates about automation bias, AI military use, and 'human-in-the-loop' oversight in #AI and data protection/ #GDPR more broadly

‘In the 10-minute presentation – titled “digital transformation and artificial intelligence in the intelligence domain” – the 🇮🇱 colonel offered a rare insight into how opaque #AI systems are being used by secretive military and intelligence bodies.’ #Gaza theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Great to see my colleagues' Rosamund Powell and Prof Marion Oswald, MBE excellent new CETaS report on assurance of 3rd party #AI systems listed in the Responsible Technology Adoption Unit's updated portfolio of AI assurance techniques.

Link to the CETaS report: cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications/a…

Policy statement will contain 'safeguards' Hope this will include clarity over 'accuracy' eg. NPL eval has limitations/caveats.What not happening as a result of LFR deployments?How assess reasonable suspicion?How assess proportionality as arrests (of themselves) ≠ proportionate?

Wrote about 'zombie forensics' and the problematic use of lie detectors by UK police forces for New Humanist

💡 #Biometric systems hold promise in enhancing the identification of criminal suspects, but concerns over technical limitations & #HumanRights considerations persist.

📖 New CETaS research provides recs for balanced #TechRegulation going forward: bit.ly/3TUfp73

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Payout for Uber Eats driver in discrimination case bbc.in/3TBeC9I

“The Eyes Can’t Lie” 👀 Misconceptions about Nonverbal Communication & why they matter

✍️Authors: Vincent Denault & Aldert Vrij

⬇️ crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/miscon…

The Home Office is to explore possible uses of Microsoft’s Copilot generative artificial intelligence tool, as well as other potential deployments of automation technologies.
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Revealed: Disputed medical terms used to explain dozens of deaths after police restraint in UK theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Home Office immigration database errors hit more than 76,000 people theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Dover Harbour Board + Kent Police reprimanded by the ICO for using Telegram/Whatsapp operationally on personal devices — can try and stop this but it is common for controllers, & creates v difficult situations as data rights extend into personal devices ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…

AI weapons scanner backtracks on UK testing claims bbc.in/3v91vog