SAN FRANCISCO — In 30 years as a police officer in California and Washington state, Darrell Lowe says he spent many hours sitting at his desk with a highlighter and sticky notes, reading through reams of evidence in search of the crucial connections needed to clinch a case.

Now as chief of police in Redmond, a Seattle suburb, he’s betting artificial intelligence can speed up that work.

Redmond Police Department is an early customer of Longeye, a San Francisco start-up offering an AI chatbot designed to answer questions about what’s inside tranches of digital evidence to help uncover missed connections and incriminating statements.

The company’s AI tool uses technology like that behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT to try to make sense of audio files, massive folders of images and long transcripts. A

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