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Human reviewers can’t keep up with police bodycam videos. AI now gets the job



In this promotional video from Truleo, the company shows how its AI would have analyzed Miami-Dade police officers during the recent controversial traffic stop of NFL player Tyreek Hill. (Warning: video contains profanity)

“Who will watch the watchmen?” In the age of police body cameras, the answer may be “artificial intelligence.”

After a decade of explosive growth, body cameras are now standard-issue for most American police as they interact with the public. The vast majority of those millions of hours of video are never watched — it’s just not humanly possible.

For academics who study the everyday actions of police, the videos are an ocean of untapped data. Some are now using “large language model” AI’s — think ChatGPT — to digest that information and produce new insights.