Taki Allen was sitting outside Kenwood High School with friends, eating a bag of chips after football practice on Monday. Around 20 minutes later, cops showed up with guns, walking toward Allen. "They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back and cuff me. Then, they searched me and they figured out I had nothing," said Taki Allen. "Then, they went over to where I was standing and found a bag of chips on the floor."

The push to integrate artificial intelligence — like large language models — in the workplace is hitting almost every industry these days. And that includes policing. Reporter James O’Donnell with MIT Technology Review got an inside look at the ways in which many departments are experimenting with the new technology when he visited the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police conference back in October. O’Donnell attended to see how artificial intelligence was being discussed. He said police are using or thinking about AI in a wide range of applications. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with O’Donnell to learn more about those use cases.

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