GREAT BRITAIN HAS LAUNCHED AN AI-BASED FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM.

AND IT HAS ALREADY LEAD TO THE ACCUSATION OF THE INNOCENT.

British police have just launched a national project PoliceAI worth 115 million pounds. Its main goal is the coordinated use of artificial intelligence in all 43 police units in England and Wales. This will be a single retrospective face recognition system.

The scale of the newly launched system is already amazing: every month, the algorithms run about 25,000 search queries on a database containing 19 million photographs of detainees. In London alone, in 2026, the police managed to scan 1.7 million faces - this is almost twice as much as a year earlier.

Official authorities report that police AI will make the country safer.

But in practice, the system is already ruining the lives of ordinary people, and the "infallible" artificial intelligence makes gross mistakes.

Here are a couple of real stories that happened quite recently:

1) The case of Alva Chowdhury. A 26-year-old software engineer was detained in Southampton. The algorithm accused him of a robbery that happened 160 kilometers from his home. Alva himself claims that the real suspect in the video does not look like him at all. Nevertheless, the guy had to spend almost ten hours in custody.

2) The Colin McMahon case. A 59-year-old roofer was pulled over by the police on a London street because PoliceAI accused him of stealing from IKEA. In fact, at the time of the crime, Colin was leading an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting ten kilometers from this IKEA.

But blindly blaming the AI ​​system for these mistakes is not worth it. In both cases, the so-called human factor worked. The police operators, who according to the instructions were obliged to double-check the conclusions of PoliceAI, in fact simply blindly wrote down all the decisions of the machine, without even trying to check them and, even more so, challenge them.

That is why the biometrics commissioners of England, Wales and Scotland warn that the introduction of technologies is faster than the development of legislation that should regulate them.

The digital police are already "roaming" in Great Britain, but there is simply no one to protect an ordinary citizen from their mistakes.

Expect the same in other countries of the world.