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AI online personas for cops spark First Amendment issues

As part of Here & Now‘s week-long look at law enforcement’s use of artificial intelligence, we find out about a company offering digital AI personas to departments across the country and whether there are First Amendment issues.

Host Rob Schmitz speaks to 404 Media co-founder Jason Koebler, who wrote about this for Wired Magazine.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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