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Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency


Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of...

Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found. The disregard for transparency is perhaps best encapsulated by a short email that an administrator in the Frederick Police Department in Colorado, one of Axon's first Draft One customers, sent to a company representative after receiving a public records request related to AI-generated reports. To reiterate: Axon deliberately does not store the original draft written by the Gen AI, because "the last thing" they want is for cops to have to provide that data to anyone (say, a judge, defense attorney or civil liberties non-profit).

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