What are the value and limits of emerging AI technologies such as ChatGPT in policing?

Background

"Analytics is the ability to synthesise information to draw insights that can lead to actionable decisions, often in combination with other information and at scale.

We are particularly interested in analytic techniques that relieve the police workforce of administrative tasks and/or support their compliance with analytic or data governance standards (e.g. the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Covenant for Using Artificial Intelligence in Policing). Our interests include developing mature capabilities such as automatic redaction and selective extraction from phones, to creating new support processes in areas such as Out of Court Disclosures, personnel vetting, and document summarisation. We retain a broad interest here because we seek to learn the value and limits of emerging technologies, such as ChatGPT, as well as continuing to exploit Advanced Data Analytics across the range of processes and questions relevant to policing."

Next steps

"We welcome your engagement with our ARIs in the following ways:
• If you have evidence that completely or partly supports or answers one of our ARIs, we invite you to share that with us. For any ongoing research relevant to policing and crime reduction, we encourage you to register your research on the College of Policing’s research projects map, which has been designed to promote collaboration and support requests for participants.
• If you are, or plan to be, carrying out research that relates to one of our ARIs, we’d like to hear about it. While we cannot respond to speculative approaches for research funding, we will where possible act to support your ambitions, including finding you policing partners where possible.
• If you are submitting a funding or grant application that aligns with one of our ARIs, we hope that referencing policing’s ARIs will help to strengthen your case for the possible public impact of the research.
• We will use the ARI document to structure our academic engagement, prioritise events and build new connections with external partners. We will be using our ARIs in our engagement with UKRI, and we will publish any opportunities for funding via our website https://science.police.uk/
Please send any correspondence and questions to csa@npcc.police.uk, including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Policing Areas of Research Interest

Related UKRI funded projects


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    Funded by: AHRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it discusses predictive policing and AI technologies, but not specifically ChatGPT.

  • Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation and Bluestar Software Limited

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on developing AI solutions for law enforcement agencies, which partially addresses the question about the value and limits of emerging AI technologies in policing.

  • "Ethical Review to Support Responsible AI in Policing - A Preliminary Study of West Midlands Police's Specialist Data Ethics Review Committee "

    The deployment of AI and emerging technologies by the police, while promising more effective use of data for the prevention and detection of crime, brings with it considerable threats of disproportionality and interferen...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses the deployment of AI and emerging technologies by the police, focusing on ethical considerations and governance, which are key aspects of understanding the value and limits of emerging AI technologies in policing.

  • Bournemouth University and Bluestar Software Limited KTP 22_23 R2

    To develop novel AI solutions for law enforcement agencies to automatically assess the value of evidential material to assist in the investigative process and improve the detection of crime. Extend the capability to deri...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • NordForsk Digitalisation of the Public Sector - Critical Understanding of Predictive Policing

    The Nordic-Baltic countries and the UK are not only considered leaders in the digitalization of the public sector, but they have also established long-term cooperation in regards to law enforcement. At the same time, law...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it explores the digitalization of law enforcement and predictive policing, but not specifically ChatGPT.

  • NCJL Academic Lead

    Across policing and the Home Office there are critical questions that need answering in order to improve criminal justice outcomes. The information exists to answer many of these questions but is hidden within large data...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • Enhanced immersive learning to support police training for criminal investigations

    From domestic violence through to Cyber-crime, front line Police officers face a complex array of societal challenges daily. Maintaining a training environment that helps better prepare officers for the complexity of mod...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Identifying Future Capabilities for Community Policing (KOBAN)

    Across Europe society is changing due to demographic, technological and economic developments. Communities are getting more diverse, both in real life and online. This challenges Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to engage...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  • Citizen Forensics

    This project reframes key challenges that underlie modern policing in a socio-technical world; a world instrumented with mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies, in which many citizens and communities live, work and...

    Funded by: EPSRC

  • Ethical and Privacy-preserving Big Data platform for Supporting criminal investigations

    This proposal aims to develop an innovative and privacy-preserving decision-support system for European law enforcement authorities, leveraging advanced Big Data and AI technologies to effectively combat crimes and terro...

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