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Prosecutors used an AI tool to send a man to prison for life. Now the person who created it is under investigation.
Adam Mosher claimed his AI tool Cybercheck helped cops and prosecutors with thousands of cases. Now he's under investigation for false testimony.
Mosher testified in court that Cybercheck, using a million lines of code and 740 proprietary algorithms, spent 21 days poring over hundreds of terabytes of publicly available data to triangulate Black's cellphone at the time of the murder and place him within a few feet of the crime scene with more than 90% accuracy. "Based upon information recently obtained, the People no longer have a reasonable likelihood of conviction should this case proceed to trial," Meghan "Breck" Roesch, a deputy district attorney, wrote in a legal filing at the time. Two years later, at the request of the Akron Police Department, Cybercheck's automated system, ostensibly without any human in the loop, searched publicly available data and issued a report that placed Mendoza's phone at the location of the shooting with 93.13% accuracy.
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