AI system wrongly accuses scientist for murder
A perfect example of why we cannot fully trust AI...
Artificial Intelligence came into our lives with the promise of making things easier.
But it seems that those who called it warned that there may be some pitfalls in the midst of using AI technology in our everyday lives.
To those people, it seems your theory was correct (to some extent anyway). An AI system is said to have incorrectly identified a man as a murderer giving him jail time.
"Russian hydrologist Alexander Tsvetkov was detained in February 2023, after an AI system determined that his face was a 55% match to the sketch of a murderer drawn 20 years ago by a witness." (Oddity Central)
The Russian scientist has been detained for 10 months and some might say he is living out a real-life nightmare. He was on a work trip in Krasnoyarsk and it was here that he was informed that he was responsible for a series of murders.
"Investigators claimed that he and his alleged accomplice killed at least two people in Moscow and the Moscow region in August 2002, ignoring the testimonies of multiple scientists that Tsvetkov had been with them at the time of the murders." (Oddity Central)
It seems he was dealt a bad hand in the world of artificial intelligence.
What's worse is the accomplice who was allegedly involved in the murders came forward and identified Tsvetkov as the murderer. The accomplice's story had some holes in it saying that he remembers his partner in crime to have been homeless at the time of the murders and was a smoker.
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"Only Tsvetkov had never been homeless, didn’t drink, and hadn’t smoked a cigarette in his life because of lung problems.
The accomplice also recalled that Tsvetkov had ring tattoos on his fingers and a Celtic pattern on his left hand. But the scientist’s relatives say that he never had any tattoos." (Oddity Central)
Sadly, the Russian authorities chose to trust the AI software that matched Tsvetkov's face with the murderer and ignored the testimonies of his family and fellow scientists. Tsvetkov was released earlier this month but the charges against him have not been dropped yet.
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