Who guards the guards with AI-driven robots? The ethicalness and cognitive neutralization of police violence following AI-robot advice

Lisa Hohensinn, Jurgen Willems, Meikel Soliman, Dieter Vanderelst and Jonathan Stoll

Public Management Review, 2024, vol. 26, issue 8, 2355-2379

Abstract: We investigate whether the perceived ethicalness of police actions changes when police follow an AI-robot’s advice. We assess whether perceived ethicalness of police violence is higher when police follow robot advice to arrest a passer-by, compared to no robot advice to arrest the passer-by. Using neutralization theory, we test how blame-shifting occurs. When police violently arrest an innocent passer-by, the violence is neutralized when the decision was made following the AI-robot. Perceived ethicalness of police violence is higher when the passer-by is a terrorist, and police violence against a passer-by is neutralized through ‘denial of victim’ and ‘denial of injury’.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2023.2269203

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