Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
Clearview AI has developed an experimental tool called InquiryIQ that uses generative AI to automatically aggregate personal data from the web for police investigations. The tool has raised concerns regarding privacy, the potential for bias, and the lack of transparency in how AI models reach investigative conclusions.
Why it matters
The integration of generative AI into law enforcement surveillance tools poses significant ethical and civil liberty risks regarding automated profiling.
Clearview has quietly built and tested what it describes as an experimental AI “analyst assistant,” WIRED has learned. Called InquiryIQ, the unreleased tool is designed to take details an investigator unearths from a Clearview search and then automatically fan out across the web—opening webpages, analyzing images, and assembling what it finds into a profile containing the possible employers, aliases, associates, and physical characteristics of a person police are investigating.
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