Vincent Arnold

The threat of cameras combined with artificial intelligence

The first trend: Cameras are increasingly monitoring noncriminals engaged in technically legal behavior. The second trend: Special new artificial intelligence software is processing video feeds to look for unacceptable behavior.

The machines are watching us, and they are making judgments about what we do.

Another way of looking at these colliding trends is that we are beginning to offload the human capacity for ethics, morality and good citizenship to computer systems. At the very least, these systems are replacing the traditional role of the nosy neighbor.

Full article and source: Computerworld

This entry was posted on Monday, June 25th, 2007 at 4:25 pm and is filed under Privacy.