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Utah police trust AI that identified a human as a frog

The future of policing apparently includes enchanted forests.

Jason Weisberger
Dec 31, 2025
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Buried in a local Fox News story about police using AI to keep streets safer is the part that actually matters: the software once decided a person had turned into a frog. Not metaphorically. Not as a joke. The system flagged a human being as an amphibian, logged it, and moved on, because that is what happens when you give pattern recognition software au…

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