Monday, December 01, 2025

An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls

How many crimes have been directed from prison?

It seems the article does not describe how such calls were linked to any actual committed crimes.

"A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.

Securus Technologies president Kevin Elder told MIT Technology Review that the company began building its AI tools in 2023, using its massive database of recorded calls to train AI models to detect criminal activity. It created one model, for example, using seven years of calls made by inmates in the Texas prison system, but it has been working on models for other states and counties. ..."

An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls

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