Court Blocks Use of AI-enhanced Video as Evidence in Murder Case

The ruling relates to a case involving Joshua Puloka, a 46-year-old man who was accused of killing three people and injuring two others in a 2021 shooting.

Joshua Puloka's lawyers attempted to introduce cellphone video enhanced with machine learning software. File photo/Ekaterina Bolovtsova/Pexels

A Washington judge has blocked the use of video enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) as evidence in the trial of a man who was accused of a 2021 shooting that left three people dead.

In a Friday ruling, King County Superior Court Judge LeRoy McCullough said that AI technology used “opaque methods to represent what the AI model ‘thinks’ should be shown,” NBC News reported.