Technological opportunities and regulative restrictions - Dilemmas in using AI in law enforcement practices
Short description
The aim of the project is to investigate how law enforcement agencies navigate and balance their new powerful extended powers to use AI in relation to new emerging regulations and policies.
There are high expectations that AI will contribute to increased efficiency for law enforcement agencies and a strong political will to facilitate the use of new technology. Right now, we have a societal situation where a changing regulatory landscape is emerging with, on the one hand, new law proposals being introduced at a rapid pace providing law enforcement agencies with extended powers to use new forms of AI technology for surveillance, analysis of large amounts of data, predictive policing. At the same time, new restrictive regulative spaces are emerging, not least through the AI Act that will be introduced in 2025 with the aim of regulating the use of AI within the EU.
The results of the project will make a valuable contribution for decision-making, policy-making and governance around these current issues. In addition, the project's results will be relevant for the internal organization of work within law enforcement agencies to develop organizational and technological measures.
The research group
Project leader: Marie Eneman (Associate Professor of Informatics)
Department of Applied Information Technology
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
E-mail: marie.eneman@gu.se
Phone: 0709 75 88 44
Jan Ljungberg (Professor of Informatics)
Department of Applied Information Technology
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Bertil Rolandsson (Professor of Sociology)
Department of Sociology and Work Science
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Matilda Arvidsson (Associate Professor of Law)
Department of Law
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
