AI in Investigations: What It Can, Can’t and Shouldn’t Do

Lessons from a police case where AI got it wrong.

In November 2025, a UK police force advised banning away fans from a football match. Its intelligence report cited a previous match that never took place. Microsoft Copilot had invented it, and no one checked. The error was exposed before a parliamentary committee, and the force’s chief constable retired days later.

Ian Herbert spent 30 years in policing, 25 of them in digital evidence. In this webinar he uses the case to answer a practical question for anyone who builds cases from unstructured data: when does AI make your case stronger, and when does it put it at risk?

You will learn:

• Why only one type of AI can invent content that never existed, and how it differs from AI that classifies or detects
• A four-part framework for deciding what to hand to AI and how to check what comes back
• What assistive, traceable AI looks like in practice, shown live in Paliscope Explore

Who should attend
Investigators and analysts in law enforcement, fraud, insurance or corporate investigations.

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