The Department of Justice (DOJ) reported a nearly 31% increase in artificial intelligence (AI) use cases from 2024 to 2025. This is primarily due to deployments supporting law enforcement and government functions.
AI in 2025 Use case inventorythe department listed a total of 315 entries, including 188 active use cases, which the Department of Justice said it reflected. “Enhance collaboration between and within components to accelerate AI adoption and innovation.”
Law enforcement applications make up the bulk of the Department of Justice’s AI portfolio, accounting for approximately 62% of deployed use cases, and administrative and IT-related systems accounting for approximately 23%. However, most of the department’s pre-implementation and pilot phase efforts are focused on administrative and IT functions, according to the inventory.
The FBI reported 50 use cases in 2025, up from 19 in 2024, including 27 in support of law enforcement operations. Nine of these law enforcement use cases are designated as high-impact, meaning they significantly change operations within the department. The remaining 41 use cases are not considered high impact.
The FBI’s high-impact systems support automated vehicle identification, including identity verification, biometric matching across large datasets, language translation, tracking vehicle movement across locations and time, and associating vehicles with people and investigations.
The remaining applications support investigative and analytical functions, manage digital evidence, streamline workflows, and assist with administrative tasks such as records and information management, IT service desk, and cybersecurity.
under directive Starting with the Trump administration, all federal agencies’ high-impact AI use cases must meet minimum risk management requirements by April 2026.
To date, none of the FBI’s nine high-impact use cases have completed the required impact assessments. Related failsafe and continuous monitoring requirements remain a work in progress.
Other Department of Justice components with high-impact AI use cases have reported similar situations, stating that mandatory risk management practices have not yet been completed, but all requirements are in progress.
Notably, the Department of Justice also stated that the inventory is incomplete and that “some information is withheld as existing laws, policies, and regulations allow for limitations on information sharing.”
Instead, the department said it applied Freedom of Information Act standards when evaluating disclosures and chose to partially release the affected entries rather than fully suspend them.
