Motorola Solutions CTO advocates AI to support police communications
According to Paul Steinberg, Senior Vice President of Technology at Motorola Solutions, in an interview with Adrian Bridgwater (Forbes), security AI must be anchored in (and measured against) widely accepted culturally and ethically appropriate methods. It must also be fair, easy to understand and adhere to strict codes of privacy and security. In short, it must be trusted by its users the police and society as a whole. The goal is to give police officers an extra sense. Forces all around the world have long talked about having their five basic human senses (touch, sight, sound, taste and hearing) and an additional sixth sense, which they call police instinct. The police sixth sense is drawn out of suspicion, natural gut feel, fear, intuition and common sense. With the right kind of AI applied to our force’s enforcement tasks, we might be able to get to a point where police talk about their seventh sense too… and in this case it would be an electronic AI-based one. But the main challenge in this world of mission critical communications is how to ensure it is responsibly used.
“It’s important to understand that AI is fundamentally amoral. It is not influenced directly by human discriminatory tendencies, emotions, distractions or fatigue. But issues such as bias occur when the output of the AI process results in inconsistent treatment across a group. This is often because, for example, the data used to train the AI was itself biased. For instance, misidentifying faces for one demographic such as race, gender, age and physiology,” said Motorola Solutions’ Steinberg.
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