Bloomington Police Chief looking to get ahead of AI [Video]

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Artificial intelligence is changing our world fast.

Bloomington Police say they need to get ahead of AI not fall behind. 

“We recently put out a posting, we’re gonna have two artificial intelligence officers,” said Police Chief Booker Hodges. “So I think we might be the first fleet police department to do that.”

Chief Hodges isn’t talking about a Robocop. He’s looking to hire two real, human employees who could look into how AI can be used to help the department. 

“Law enforcement typically trails behind and most technology pieces,” said Hodges. “So my goal with this is to get ahead of it.”

He says he wants to be very careful with this technology, any evidence would need human verification. 

“Their primary responsibility is going to be to explore how we could utilize this technology, …