politics
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”
TL;DR
- Securus Technologies trained an AI model on years of inmate phone and video calls to detect criminal activity.
- The company is piloting this AI to scan inmate calls, texts, and emails in real-time to predict and prevent crimes.
- Critics like Bianca Tylek of Worth Rises argue that inmates are not aware their data is used for AI training, calling it 'coercive consent'.
- Corene Kendrick of the ACLU's National Prison Project states the new AI system enables invasive surveillance, with technology outpacing the law.
- The FCC has recently allowed telecom companies to pass security costs, including AI development, onto inmates, reversing previous reforms.
- FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez dissented, stating law enforcement, not families of incarcerated people, should pay for security costs.