Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct
TL;DR
Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm’s tech to analyse behaviour as ‘automated suspicion’ Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staff behaviour in an attempt to root out failing officers, the Guardian has learned. The Metropolitan police has previously declined to confirm or deny whether it used technology supplied by the company, which also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump’s ICE operation. It has now confirmed that it is using Palantir’s AI to analyse internal data about sickness levels, absences from duty and overtime patterns in an effort to identify potential shortcomings in professional standards. Continue reading...
Nauti's Take
Nauti says KI surveillance without transparent metrics and appeal paths just feeds suspicion machines; responsible teams should lean on root-cause work and real conversations before an algorithm flags anyone on the sick list.
Summary
Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm’s tech to analyse behaviour as ‘automated suspicion’ Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staff behaviour in an attempt to root out failing officers, the Guardian has learned. The Metropolitan police has previously declined to confirm or deny whether it used technology supplied by the company, which also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump’s ICE operation.
It has now confirmed that it is using Palantir’s AI to analyse internal data about sickness levels, absences from duty and overtime patterns in an effort to identify potential shortcomings in professional standards. Continue reading...
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