Liisa Järvilehto: ‘Regarding AI’s role in interviewing, we need to rein in the enthusiasts and encourage the doubters’

8th June 2026Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

Question prompts driven by artificial intelligence (AI) could offer real-time assistance to investigative interviewers and enhance child interview quality, according to a pilot study, but also risk officers’ over-reliance on the new technology; Liisa Järvilehto, a clinical forensic psychologist and PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki, explained to Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons that the ambitious goals around the use of AI in interviewing needed a balance of enthusiasm and care.

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Liisa Järvilehto: ‘Regarding AI’s role in interviewing, we need to rein in the enthusiasts and encourage the doubters’

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