EFF Investigation: AI Product for Police Reports is Designed to Hinder Audits

Notes

EFF press release summarizing their own investigation based on public records from dozens of agencies and Axon user manuals. Above the press prior (0.50) because EFF is citing primary records they obtained, but still a press release promoting their own findings.

Evidence from this source (4)

• CDAxon promotes an 'audit log' function as the primary transparency measure for D… support
  weight

  0.75

  method: journalistic_report · locator: body, paragraph beginning 'Axon has promoted its "audit log" function'

  “Axon has promoted its 'audit log' function as the primary transparency measure. However, after obtaining examples of this data, EFF found that it shed little light on the usage of the technology.”

• CDDraft One retains no record of successive regenerations of the same report, so… support
  weight

  0.80

  method: journalistic_report · locator: body, paragraph following draft-retention finding

  “if an officer generated a Draft One report multiple times over, there's no way to tell whether the AI interpreted the audio differently each time.”

• CDAxon leverages its installed base of Taser, body-worn camera, and surveillance… support
  weight

  0.70

  method: journalistic_report · locator: body, paragraph beginning 'Axon' Tasers, body-worn cameras'

  “Axon' Tasers, body-worn cameras and surveillance technology bundles are used by thousands of police agencies, and the company is using those existing relationships to heavily promote Draft One. Many more cities are expected to deploy this AI in the next few years.”

• CDAxon's Draft One product does not save the AI-generated draft police report or… support
  weight

  0.85

  method: journalistic_report · locator: body, paragraph beginning 'EFF's investigation found that Draft One does not save the draft'

  “Draft One does not save the draft it generates, nor any subsequent edited versions. Rather, an officer copies the AI draft text and pastes it to the police report, and the AI draft disappears as soon as the window closes.”