This article was originally posted on Northeastern Global News by Cody Mello-Klein.
As more and more sectors experiment with artificial intelligence, one of the areas that has most quickly adopted this new technology is law enforcement. It’s led to some problematic growing pains, from false arreststo concerns around facial recognition.
However, a new training tool is now being used by law enforcement agencies across the globe to ensure that officers understand this technology and use it more ethically.
Based largely on the work of Cansu Canca, director of responsible AI practice at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI, and designed in collaboration with the United Nations and Interpol, the Responsible AI Toolkit is one of the first comprehensive training programs for police focused exclusively on AI. At the core of the toolkit is a simple question, Canca says.
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