Cybercheck Tool Allegedly Provides Questionable Evidence in Murder Trials
May 3, 2024
Global Intelligence's Cybercheck AI tool, used by law enforcement to track suspects based on open source data, has allegedly been providing inaccurate or unverifiable evidence in several murder trials. Reportedly the tool lacks transparency and often produces unreliable reports, which has prompted prosecutors to withdraw Cybercheck evidence from multiple cases after its findings were challenged, reportedly wasting law enforcement time and resources while undermining prosecutors' cases.
- Alleged deployer
- global-intelligence, cybercheck
- Alleged developer
- global-intelligence, cybercheck
- Alleged harmed parties
- phillip-mendoza, sergio-cerna, unnamed-aurora-colorado-residents, mississippi-bureau-of-investigation, four-unnamed-summit-county-ohio-men, unnamed-boulder-county-colorado-resident, ohio-bureau-of-criminal-investigation, yakima-county-sheriff's-office
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/823
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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