New AI Tool Helps Assess Reliability of Eyewitness Testimonies
• Researchers developed an AI tool to help assess the accuracy of eyewitness confidence statements • Over 900 exonerations have been due to eyewitness misidentifications, a major contributor to wrongful convictions • The AI classifies confidence levels as high, medium, or low to provide an objective assessment • In testing, the AI correctly classified confidence levels 71% of the time, similar to human coders • The AI judgments mapped to identification accuracy, with high confidence statements being correct 90% of the time