The evidence in front of you may be synthetic.

Voices can be cloned and faces can be faked, at scale. The investigators who matter now are the ones who can prove what's real.

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THE THREAT

Fabrication is now cheap, fast and convincing.

Generative AI produces cloned voices, synthetic personas, deepfake video and manipulated documents and biometrics, at scale. Any of them can land in your case file looking authentic.

Authentic vs Synthetic

Why manual OSINT falls short

Surface searches and standard query patterns can't tell an authentic artifact from an algorithmic one. That risks broken chain of custody and contaminated findings. Verification now means checking audio anomalies, generative metadata and visual artifacts, so your work holds up under cross-examination.

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THE OPPORTUNITY

Use AI in casework without losing the case.

Triage and pattern detection

Large-scale data triage, pattern detection, prompt development and predictive analysis, all inside evidence-handling rules and privacy standards.

Outputs you can defend

No coding prerequisite. The skill is applied: how to use, evaluate, test, document and defend AI-assisted work.

THE CURRICULUM

CAIIE: Certified Artificial Intelligence & Investigations Expert

Four pillars, built for investigators rather than engineers.

Synthetic media & deepfake analysis

Audio cloning, synthetic video artifacts, visual anomalies and generative metadata.

Applied machine learning & NLP

Natural language processing and computer vision to triage massive evidence sets.

Ethics, law & chain of custody

Admissibility standards, bias mitigation and defending AI-driven findings in court.

Prompt engineering & workflow

Structured investigative prompts and AI tools built into active casework, defensibly.

clock hours of instruction, created and taught by former federal agents and intelligence practitioners.

CPE credits

Lifetime

Access to the training

1 year

Exam license

Self-paced and fully online, so you can start the day you enroll.

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Keep human judgment in charge.

Learn how CAIIE trains investigators to apply AI and defend the results.

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