🔍 AI Detective Takes on Unsolved Crimes

Artificial intelligence analyzed criminal cases in just two days—that would have taken humans 81 years to review. This is the result of an experiment conducted by police in the United Kingdom.

👮‍♂️ No More Getting Lost in Paperwork

The Avon and Somerset Police utilized an AI tool developed in Australia called Söze. This digital detective can analyze videos, bank transactions, call logs, social media posts, emails, images, documents, and data from phones and computers.

For the experiment, the AI reviewed 27 complex criminal cases involving massive amounts of evidence. Processing all the materials and providing preliminary conclusions took just 30 hours.

"So you might have had a cold case review, possible cost, the amount of material there, and the system can just ingest it and give you an assessment of it then I can see that being really helpful some of the most notorious unsolved crimes out there," said Gavin Stephens, chairman of the National Police Chiefs Council. However, he emphasized that AI must be carefully monitored and used to support police work—not replace it.

🚓 Catching Criminals Through a Knife's Edge

London's Metropolitan Police, in collaboration with the University of Surrey, is testing another AI algorithm. Thanks to a massive database of knife patterns, this system can instantly identify the type of knife used in a crime just from scene photos. It can also track the knife's origin and flag potential connections to other crimes.

More on the topic:

➡️ AI Sherlock: GeoSpy AI pinpoints locations from a single image

➡️ How AI is changing police work, as covered by The New Yorker

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