Met Police Palantir AI flags hundreds of officers, sparking privacy probe – Startup Fortune

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The Met’s Palantir pilot flagged hundreds of officers for misconduct risks based on sickness, overtime, and absence data, prompting an internal investigation and reigniting privacy concerns over AI in policing.

April 25, The Times reported AI software identified wrongdoing, including sexual abuse of authority and fraud. Palantir Foundry consolidates HR, operational data. Patterns match past discipline. Human review follows flags.

Pilot ran months. Met confirms. Standards unit triages outputs. Earlier risk detection goal. Police Federation warns careers ruined unfairly. Guardian April 22 flagged talks for criminal investigation expansion.

Eleven forces use Palantir. Met 46,000-strong. US firm links ICE, Israeli military raise flags. ICO demands privacy-by-design. Impact assessment unpublished.

MPs push disclosure. Unions demand safeguards. False positives risk. Met promises pilot review year-end.

AI Scales Standards

Tech spots patterns manual misses. Sickness, overtime anomalies. Live discipline updates dataset. Efficiency gains, fairness fears.

Global trend. Predictive policing expands. Governance lags. Transparent logic, certified auditors essential.

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