AI experts warn that if policing doesn’t harness the new tech properly it will be ‘swallowed by some very big waves’

27th November 2025Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

Policing and artificial intelligence (AI) experts from the UK, Australia, US, Canada and the UAE came together recently to explore international insights into policing in the age of AI, highlighting the challenges around improving tech capability, overcoming fragmentation, the need to engage and explain to the public and police staff, and the dangers of eroding police discretion, as well as the increasing threats from the criminal use of AI, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports.

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AI experts warn that if policing doesn’t harness the new tech properly it will be ‘swallowed by some very big waves’

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