After five months of applying technology to nearly 47,000 documents, the AI has already found thousands of mentions of at least four military officers who were part of Pinochet’s secret police. The AI will continue to link and relate names, facts, dates, and places to aid in the identification of victims. The initiative, spearheaded by Justice Minister Luis Cordero, is intended to become a permanent state policy.
Key takeaways:
- Chile's President Gabriel Boric has announced the use of artificial intelligence in the search for over 1,000 individuals who were victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. The plan is spearheaded by Justice Minister Luis Cordero and is intended to become a permanent State policy.
- The technological analysis of the information is being handled by Unsholster, a company specialized in data analysis, data science and software development. The company is in charge of the implementation of artificial intelligence and is currently in the pre-project stage.
- The documents, which are mostly in PDF format, are being transformed into data using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. The company already has information totaling 46,768 PDF files, which amounts to more than 4.7 million pages.
- Five months after technology was first applied to the nearly 47,000 documents of Unsholster’s Human Rights Program, it is already possible to find thousands of mentions of at least four military officers who were part of Pinochet’s secret police, the feared DINA (National Intelligence Directorate).