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Germany’s AI detectives

How German podcasters tracked down a terrorist suspect using an AI facial recognition tool. On the run for 30 years she may have information about murders in the 1980s and 90s.

In late 2023 a group of German journalists released a podcast series, Legion: Most Wanted. It described their ultimately unsuccessful search for a terrorist suspect, Daniela Klette, using an AI facial recognition tool. She had been on the run for more than 30 years, together with two accomplices. The trio are believed by the police to have been members of the Red Army Faction, the RAF, an anti-imperialist terrorist group, often referred to as the Baader Meinhof gang. The RAF claimed responsibility in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the assassination of a number of prominent Germans. None of these crimes has ever been cleared up.

Produced and presented by Tim Mansel
Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar
Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Penny Murphy

(Image: Wanted poster of Burkhard Garweg at a Berlin bus stop. Credit: David Gannon/AFP via Getty Images)

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