Justice Rewired: AI at the Frontlines of Crime and Criminal Justice

9:10 a.m. Welcome and Introduction from the Conference Co-Chairs

Ali Alavi, Founder, GenerativeModels.ai
Ryan Fritsch, Legal Counsel, Law Commission of Ontario
David Kepes, Special Advisor, RCMP and Toronto Police Service

9:10 a.m. What is AI? How is it impacting Criminal Justice in Canada and Elsewhere?

• Overview of the diverse applications of AI in criminal justice, both in Canada and in other leading jurisdictions.
• Concrete and comparative examples of the use of AI in predictive policing
• Facial recognition, risk assessment, open-source intelligence gathering
• Preparation of witness and event statements to provide a good foundation for thinking how AI can be leveraged to advance the administration of justice.
• Key legal challenges AI systems may pose in relation to bias, disclosure, privacy, and other criminal standards for procedural fairness, evidence law, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Ian Williams, Director of Information Management, Toronto Police Service
Chris Rudnicki, Rudnicki & Company and Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association
Kate Robertson, Senior Research Associate at Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Ianina Lipara, Administrative Director at the Criminal Law and Justice Center at UC Berkeley Law, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Ryan Fritsch, Legal Counsel, Law Commission of Ontario

10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. A Practical Guide to AI Tools in Legal Practice and Criminal Justice

• Currently available AI tools, with demonstrative examples
• How these tools should be considered within the scope of justice work
• Incorporating AI into the daily work of law firms, law enforcement services, and justice departments
• Deep dive into what tools currently exist, what they offer, vulnerabilities and what tools may be just over the horizon.

Jason Neubauer, Crown Attorney, Ministry of the Attorney General
Kate Puech, Director of Machine Learning, Axon
Moderator: Ali Alavi, Founder, GenerativeModels.ai

12:15 p.m. Break

1:00 p.m. Operationalizing AI: Guardrails, Policies and Best Practices

• How to responsibly adopt and prepare justice system organizations for AI
• Understanding the relative risk different AI systems present
• Disclosure and transparency obligations
• Criminal law standards for validity and reliability of novel technologies
• Guarding against algorithmic deference; data, training and version control
• The role for expert witnesses.

Michael Billinger, Manager, AI Policy & Governance, RCMP
Dr. Daniel Konikoff-Houpt, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta
Christopher Parsons, A/Director Technology Policy, Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner
Fion Lee-Madan, Strategic Partnerships, Fairly.AI
Moderator: Ryan Fritsch

2:30 p.m. Break

2:45 p.m. Criminal Uses of AI and Implications for the Justice System

• Ways in which AI is being used to foster and facilitate new forms of criminal behaviour from agentic AI to mass scamming, deepfakes and misinformation, child sexual exploitation and complex financial crimes
• How the justice system is responding

Maura Grossman, Professor of Law and Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Liam Price, Director General, RCMP International Special Services
Julie Tomaszewski, Innovation & Technology Officer, INTERPOL I-RAIL Lab, Singapore
Ianina Lipara, Administrative Director at the Criminal Law and Justice Center at UC Berkeley Law, UC Berkeley
Moderator: David Kepes, Special Advisor, RCMP and Toronto Police Service

4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks