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File Name | S22-Policy-Stoa-21-AFF-PrisonCalls.docx |
File Size | 61.52 KB |
Date added | November 1, 2021 |
Category | Policy (Stoa) |
Author | Vance Trefethen |
Resolved: The United States federal government substantially reform the use of Artificial Intelligence technology
Case Summary: This plan has the federal prison system use Artificial Intelligence to transcribe and gain actionable information from recordings of phone calls coming from prisoners. Federal prison phone calls (except to an attorney) are monitored for security reasons, as you could well imagine. Threats against people on the outside, staff on the inside, or plots involving further criminal activity, or even self-incriminating admissions of guilt are heard on prison phone calls all the time. But federal prison phone monitoring is done sporadically and manually by human observers occasionally listening in. If they are recorded, nobody goes back and listens to hundreds of hours of phone calls unless a court case comes up or a crime happens and they need to hunt for evidence. But that’s after the fact, and many threats, crimes, or even suicides could be prevented by acting on information in prisoner calls immediately. AI could transcribe and flag conversations containing key words (“I’m gonna tell Jimmy to beat up Suzy if she testifies against me” … “I think I’ll kill myself” etc.) and prison officials could immediately take action to prevent problems from occurring. Several states are already doing it, with dramatic and beneficial results.