A Washington state judge’s exclusion of AI-enhanced video evidence puts a novel twist on controversial issues regarding what technologies to put in front of juries.
The video—offered by a man accused of shooting five people, killing three, outside a Seattle bar—relied on an artificial intelligence model that hadn’t been validated and could lead to confusion, King County Superior Court Judge Leroy McCullough ruled March 29. The model altered pixels with opaque methods and hadn’t been peer reviewed, which could have led to “a time-consuming trial within a trial” over its reliability, McCullough said.
The ruling comes as AI’s capabilities and ...
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