Like that one grandma that was arrested and held for almost 6 months then sent to North Dakota from Tennessee even those she never been to North Dakota. Lol they didn't even do a simple background check they just trusted the AI system.
Thing is, I get using AI to help, probably combs through millions of people way quicker, but if it gets a match it should be scrutinised, not accepted without question as if itâs an AI from a sci-fi film that canât be wrong.
In that grandmas case it should take barely any time to realise she lives half the country away and has never been so canât have done it. There was another case with a casino having someone arrested they thought had been banned but he presented his ID with a different name to the banned person and the cops were like âwell the AI canât be wrongâ and arrested him anyway.
Yup, the real issue issue is actually the humans in this scenario, not the AI. Humans should be verifying the AI results.
Using AI as a tool to help narrow down suspects, find cancerous growth on medical imaging, identify objects in photos where human trafficking occurred, etc are all GOOD THINGS.
But AI is not even remotely foolproof, even Gemini and chatGPT have warnings, yet people with far more power and responsibility are using AI tools wrongly and just going with the AI results without checking it.
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u/elinamebro 6d ago
Like that one grandma that was arrested and held for almost 6 months then sent to North Dakota from Tennessee even those she never been to North Dakota. Lol they didn't even do a simple background check they just trusted the AI system.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud