Exploring and Understanding Law Enforcement’s Relationship with Technology: A Qualitative Interview Study of Police Officers in North Carolina
Exploring and Understanding Law Enforcement’s Relationship with Technology: A Qualitative Interview Study of Police Officers in North Carolina
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10.3390/app13063887
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2023-03
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Ronald P. Dempsey;James Brunet;Veljko Dubljević
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作者：
Ronald P. Dempsey;James Brunet;Veljko Dubljević
将人工智能（AI）技术融入执法已成为当代政治和公共话语的关注点。在本文中，我们基于对北卡罗来纳州执法专业人员的20次半结构化访谈，定性地研究了人工智能技术的观点。我们调查了人工智能技术的整合，如预测警务和自动驾驶汽车（AV）技术，如何影响社区和警察管辖区之间的关系。有证据表明，警察认为人工智能在警务中发挥的作用有限，但相信这些技术将继续扩大，改善公共安全并提高警务能力。相反，警察认为人工智能不一定会增加警察和社区之间的信任，理由是道德问题和侵犯公民权利的可能性。因此，有人认为，将人工智能技术融入执法的趋势并非没有风险。在公众共识和与执法专业人员合作讨论的指导下制定政策，必须旨在通过在警务中应用负责任的人工智能设计来促进问责制，最终实现提供社会福利和减轻对民众的伤害。社会有道德义务减轻将人工智能技术完全融入执法的不利后果。
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into law enforcement has become a concern of contemporary politics and public discourse. In this paper, we qualitatively examine the perspectives of AI technologies based on 20 semi-structured interviews of law enforcement professionals in North Carolina. We investigate how integrating AI technologies, such as predictive policing and autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, impacts the relationships between communities and police jurisdictions. The evidence suggests that police officers maintain that AI plays a limited role in policing but believe the technologies will continue to expand, improving public safety and increasing policing capability. Conversely, police officers believe that AI will not necessarily increase trust between police and the community, citing ethical concerns and the potential to infringe on civil rights. It is thus argued that the trends toward integrating AI technologies into law enforcement are not without risk. Policymaking guided by public consensus and collaborative discussion with law enforcement professionals must aim to promote accountability through the application of responsible design of AI in policing with an end state of providing societal benefits and mitigating harm to the populace. Society has a moral obligation to mitigate the detrimental consequences of fully integrating AI technologies into law enforcement.