Miguel Afonso Caetano on Nostr: "Current and former members of that team told Forbes that Google engineers had been ...
"Current and former members of that team told Forbes that Google engineers had been working on tools that could ingest court orders, subpoenas and other official requests, before going to find the relevant data for an LIS member to review. In theory they would significantly speed up the manual work of an LIS staffer. One source familiar with the matter told Forbes the backlog for requests is in the thousands.
But those tools have so far failed to do what is needed of them, sources said. Though the AI was trained on the work done by the LIS team, it has not yet been able to replicate it. And now 10 engineers charged with developing the AI have been sacked and the fate of the project has been thrown into doubt, staff told Forbes.
One staffer said the AI hasn’t yet been deployed and the layoffs were going to further delay them. Another added, “Calling any of our current tooling ‘AI’ feels like a stretch.” As Forbes had previously reported, a trial of the technology had actually created more work, because any requests processed by AI had to be double checked and often redone by humans before being released to law enforcement."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/03/21/google-wants-ai-to-process-police-data-requests-its-not-going-well/
#AI #Google #Surveillance #LawEnforcement
But those tools have so far failed to do what is needed of them, sources said. Though the AI was trained on the work done by the LIS team, it has not yet been able to replicate it. And now 10 engineers charged with developing the AI have been sacked and the fate of the project has been thrown into doubt, staff told Forbes.
One staffer said the AI hasn’t yet been deployed and the layoffs were going to further delay them. Another added, “Calling any of our current tooling ‘AI’ feels like a stretch.” As Forbes had previously reported, a trial of the technology had actually created more work, because any requests processed by AI had to be double checked and often redone by humans before being released to law enforcement."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/03/21/google-wants-ai-to-process-police-data-requests-its-not-going-well/
#AI #Google #Surveillance #LawEnforcement