Plato's prisoners mistook shadows for the world. Most interview and interrogation training does the same thing — 1950s confrontation repackaged as "non-accusatory" and "research-based." Here's how to tell the difference and why the upgrade to science-based interviewing is worth your training dollars.

AI in criminal investigations is only as good as the interviews feeding it. Science-based interviewing produces detailed, corroborable accounts an algorithm can actually use — accusatorial methods contaminate the dataset before analysis ever begins.