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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, August 24th. I'm Mac Watson.

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Wyoming police are testing artificial intelligence to write reports and analyze evidence, but the rules of how that happens haven't caught up. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that a former Wyoming attorney general has mixed reactions on it and said her concern is AI's ability to "hallucinate."

"Technology that police in Evanston are experimenting with was actually created by a 20-year-old MIT student with his roommate in a college dorm room last year. However, former Attorney General Gay Woodhouse does have a few concerns. She says, although it may help officers save some time. There have been reports that AI hallucinates, and this is something that the founder does talk about a little bit. In AI terms, a hallucination is when the system generates information that sounds plausible and authoritative, but it's actually not backed by evidence. And the founder of Code Four, this company Evanston is experimenting with, acknowledges that AI is not perfect, and so the onus is really on the officer to review that narrative before signing off on it. It's not made to replace the officer; it's simply made to assist the officer."

Woodhouse remembers federal investigations when prosecutors spent weeks combing through hundreds of hours of pole-camera video trained on suspected drug houses, searching for the few moments that mattered. Artificial intelligence could find those moments in minutes.

Read the full story HERE.

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An intense search in rugged territory in northern Campbell County this past week has found more evidence of 43-year-old Derek Schaff of Gillette, who has been missing more than two months. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that his sister-in-law says the discovery brings officials closer to "the answers our family so desperately needs."

"He was last physically seen on June 12, and his vehicle was later found five days later on June 17. It was high centered on a road leading into the Weston Hills Recreational Area. Now it hasn't found him, of course. That's the question, where he is and what happened to him. But finding that additional evidence was helpful to know. Okay, he's definitely in here. It's just more evidence to point that he was there."

Sgt. Gary Sams of the Campbell County Sheriff's Office, confirmed Schaff's presence in this area between his last sighting in Gillette on June 12 and when his girlfriend reported him missing on June 19 after he failed to return home. Downhill from the recovery site, the sheriff's office found Schaff's cellphone and other personal items.

Read the full story HERE.

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A couple accused of moving into a locked-up home and selling off the owner's possessions allegedly told the homeowner they were squatters, they have rights, and he couldn't do anything about it. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that's when the owner called police and had the couple arrested.

"There's two people living there, and he notices a lot of his stuff is outside, and his vehicles have been moved, and all kinds of stuff. And so, what he discovers is, as he's going into the house, someone sees him coming, walking inside the house. They tell him repeatedly, 'We have squatters' rights. We're not leaving, and you can't do anything about it.' And so he called 911, and lo and behold, yeah, you can do something about it. They got arrested. It's an example of a new law that went into effect last year in