"It mandates that police reports written by AI include disclaimers on every page or within the body of the text that make it clear that this report was written in part or in total by a computer. It also says that any reports written by AI must retain their first draft. That way, it should be easier for defense attorneys, judges, police supervisors, or any other auditing entity to see which portions of the final report were written by AI."
"Further, the bill requires officers to sign and verify that they read the report and its facts are correct. And it bans AI vendors from selling or sharing the information a police agency provided to the AI. These common-sense, first-step reforms are important: watchdogs are struggling to figure out where and how AI is being used in a police context."
California bill mandates page-level disclaimers for AI-written police reports indicating partial or total computer authorship. The bill requires retention of the AI-generated first draft to enable auditors to distinguish AI-generated from officer-written portions. Officers must sign and verify that they read the report and confirm factual accuracy. AI vendors are prohibited from selling or sharing information provided by police agencies. The reforms aim to increase transparency around tools like Axon's Draft One by forcing redesigns to preserve iterations and attribution. Major concerns include handling of sarcasm, out-of-context comments, non-English interactions, and failure to track human versus AI contributions.
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