Director of Responsible AI, Axon Enterprise
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Director of Responsible AI, Axon Enterprise - Publicly defending targeted design of Edmonton’s facial-recognition watchlist
In December 2025, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) in Alberta, Canada, began a month-long “proof of concept” in which Axon body-worn cameras run third‑party facial-recognition software to scan passersby against a tightly scoped yet sizable watchlist: 6,341 people flagged in EPS systems for risks such as “violent or assaultive,” “armed and dangerous,” or “high‑risk offender,” plus 724 individuals with serious arrest warrants, for roughly 7,000 faces in total. Officers do not receive real-time alerts during the pilot; instead, footage is analyzed afterward to test accuracy and workflows.
Updated Dec 11, 2025
Director of Responsible AI, Axon - Defending the pilot’s design and targeting criteria
In early December 2025, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) and U.S. vendor Axon activated a month‑long “proof of concept” in which AI-enabled body‑worn cameras scan the faces of people officers encounter against a “high‑risk” watch list of 6,341 individuals with safety flags and a separate list of 724 people wanted on serious warrants. Axon, which in 2019 publicly promised not to put facial recognition on its body cameras after advice from its independent AI Ethics Board, now frames the project as “early‑stage field research” outside the United States that will inform potential future deployments in North America.
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