Britain tests AI detective in solving real-life crimes

The UK Police Department has launched testing of Soze, an intelligent system capable of assisting in solving crimes. The main advantage of the AI platform is the high speed of scanning case materials, which can reduce weeks and months of work by a team of investigators to just a few hours. However, experts question the accuracy of the work and are concerned about the high probability of errors.

However, the implementation of Soze in parts of South West England has been successful and promising. The AI detective scanned emails, social media accounts, videos and photos from 27 complex cases within 30 hours. Humans would have taken at least 81 years to do this. This makes the platform an ideal solution for use under staff shortages and various budgetary constraints.

Gavin Stevens, chairman of Britain’s National Police Chiefs’ Council, finds the system extremely useful and sees its huge potential in investigating cases with a lot of material to examine. The introduction of AI into Britain’s law enforcement system is well underway. A database of knives and edged weapons used by criminals has already been created.

This and other intelligent systems raise both optimism and wariness. The cost of mistakes and false positives is too high – the fates of real people will depend on the decisions made by AI. The use of artificial intelligence in the police must be calibrated and justified.