Draft One Cops across the US are moving to embrace AI-written police reports — and according to The Associated Press, experts are sounding the alarm. The AI tool, called “Draft One,” was announced by the police tech company Axon back in April. Axon — also the maker of tasers and other weapons — claims that the AI program uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model to soundly generate police reports from cops’ body camera audio, and has marketed it as a productivity booster that can cut down on officers’ paperwork hours. “If an officer spends half their day reporting, and we can cut that in half,” Axon CEO Rick Smith told Forbes at the time, “we have an opportunity to potentially free up 25 percent of an officer’s time to be back out policing.” But as far as paperwork goes, police reports are more sensitive than your average email, and generative AI is a technology prone to what those in the industry call “hallucination” — in short, a catch-all term for the common errors like fabricated facts or otherwise incorrect information often found in synthetic text. Even so, American police departments in states including Colorado, Indiana, and Oklahoma are starting to test the Draft One waters, with some departments even allowing officers to use the tool for any kind of case, as opposed to only minor incident reports. And experts, unsurprisingly, are worrying about the consequences. After all, a police report has a foundational role in investigative and legal processes; is it wise — or…Cops Say Hallucinating AIs Are Ready to Write Police Reports That Could Send People to Prison