Law enforcement has embraced artificial intelligence for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition, and the results have been pretty dismal. In one particularly comedic instance, the Heber City Police Department in Utah was forced to explain why a police report declared that an officer had somehow transformed into a frog. It turns out that the body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on a movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be the 2009 musical comedy The Princess and the Frog. The police department had begun testing an AI-powered software called Draft One to generate police reports from body cam footage, with the goal of reducing the amount of paperwork officers had to do. It turns out that even a simple mock traffic stop meant to demonstrate what the tool is capable of turned into a disaster, resulting in having to make numerous corrections. The Heber City Police Department has yet to decide whether it will keep using Draft One.
