Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

Clearview AI, a face-recognition company, has built and tested InquiryIQ, an experimental AI tool that automatically searches the web to compile detailed profiles of people, including their associates, social accounts, employers, and physical characteristics, using demographic inputs like age, gender, and race to guide its searches. The tool, which tested models from xAI (maker of Grok), could compress weeks of detective work into minutes for police investigations, but experts worry it could enable unfounded investigations and make it hard to understand why the AI pursued certain leads. Clearview says InquiryIQ is only a prototype that has never been released to customers and is not currently planned for release in its present form.