INDIANAPOLIS — Navigating artificial intelligence has been a challenge for law enforcement agencies across the board. Now, some departments have called on the Indiana General Assembly to weigh in. ”Long-term, this issue of AI and law enforcement is on a collision course,” State Rep. Matt Lehman, the AI task force co-chair, said. Thursday, Indiana State Police (ISP) and the Indiana Public Defender Council (IPDC) expressed concerns about AI, specifically facial recognition technology, to lawmakers. ”A realist would say it also has the capacity to destroy our rights,” Zach Stock, legislative counsel for the IPDC, said. Stock said, in many cases, low-quality surveillance photos are run through AI programs that misidentify the suspect, leading to more AI-driven false arrests.   ”Our concern is that there are enough publicly documented examples of the misuse of facial recognition that it’s necessary for the legislature to get involved,” Stock said. ISP currently requires corroborative evidence and peer review when using AI, but troopers have warned that’s not the case for all agencies. ”We are following the recommendations for not only the region but the nation on these platforms,” ISP Maj. Bryan Harper said. “Not all agencies choose to get on board with that. ”We don’t know what the locals are doing, and how they’re using it, and we also don’t know what the companies they’re contracting with are doing and using it,” said State Sen. Liz Brown (R-Fort Wayne), the other task force co-chair. But Lehman said creating a single standard for all agencies is easier said than done. ”They all have the common good, right? They have all the common good, but they like their independence," Lehman said. "So, I think it’s going to be very difficult to kind of thread that needle." ”We need to make sure we’re listening to the professionals and to the public defenders to make sure we’re not going too far.” While it’s unclear how the General Assembly could address this issue next year, the committee voted on other recommendations this week. One of the initiatives the committee voted on was a motion to make the AI task force a permanent fixture. The committee also considered ways to create separate committees that can thoroughly vet new technology.