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Should AI play an ever-growing role in tackling crime?

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly used by police forces, but critics are worried.

"We set out to build an assistant for operators to make their jobs slightly easier, because it is a high stress and time-sensitive environment," says Kamila Hankiewicz, chief executive and co-founder of Untrite. Meanwhile, the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) last year undertook independent testing of the three types of facial recognition technology, all of which have been used by the Metropolitan and South Wales police forces. It is, of course, good news that independent tests are taking place, and West Midlands Police has gone a step further, setting up its own ethics committee to evaluate new tech tools.

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