AI-buse Of The System

When you're making a mint from AI but can't afford the space to store your audit trail...

This company made software that unearths evidence trails that lead to convictions - but doesn't store the evidence trails to show how it obtained the trails.

Look - AI is hard. You can make a "black box" style AI that you feed a question in, it spits an answer out - but how it got there is a mystery. Most algorithms are a bit like that, unless they're explicitly written to create a map of how they got to the solution. Adding that extra level of difficulty is - difficult.

But you'd think that when you sell such a piece of software specifically designed to sniff out traces of evidence from the Internet and other networks, you'd think you might want to add to the report where you got that piece of evidence from, how you'd found it. 

"The suspect's phone was shown to have pinged off a cellphone tower located at (location in New York) at (time,) placing them in the vicinity of person B" is fantastic to know for securing a conviction. Unless the preceding (and unrecorded) step before that reads "the suspect's phone pinged off a number of cellphone towers across Mexico before - (now read the introductory sentence again.)

You need to show ALL the steps to acquiring evidence. "A search of celltower records (sourced from sites httpXX, httpYY, and httpZZ) showed the suspect's phone number moving about Philadelphia, the suspect's hometown, then in Texas, and subsequently ..." (again, backtrack to the last sentence.)

And since Cybercheck can't prove that those other things didn't happen as well and the last cellphone tower ping wasn't just "cherrypicked" by the program, everything can easily fall apart right there. 

I sincerely hope that the company that makes the software figure it out quickly because otherwise some of the cases that the software provided crucial evidence in, might have to be voided. And it's a pity because this kind of evidence-gathering work would prove to be almost impossible for a human investigator to perform in any reasonable time. 

This is sooo a case of technology outpacing the legalities. We need people in each of these high-tech industries whose job is to work out precisely which legalities the product is likely or possibly likely to fall afoul of, and inform the teams responsible for the product. And then follow up to ensure the advice is being followed, even perhaps having some rights to halt the development cycle until the points are addressed, to prevent the kinds of shitstorms that are currently happening in AI. 

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