Court Blocks Use of AI-enhanced Video as Evidence in Murder Case

A Washington judge has blocked the use of video enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) as evidence in the trial of a man who was accused of a 2021 shooting that left three people dead.

In a Friday ruling, King County Superior Court Judge LeRoy McCullough said that AI technology used “opaque methods to represent what the AI model ‘thinks’ should be shown,” NBC News reported.

“This Court finds that admission of this Al-enhanced evidence would lead to a confusion of the issues and a muddling of eyewitness testimony, and could lead to a time-consuming trial within a trial about the non-peer-reviewable-process used by the AI model,” the judge said.

The ruling relates to the trial of Joshua Puloka, a 46-year-old man who was accused of killing three people and injuring two others in a shooting outside a Seattle-area bar on Sept. 26, 2021, according to the report.

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