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At the Olympics, AI Is Watching You
A controversial new surveillance system in Paris foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch.
In an interview with weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, he explained that “ potentially dangerous individuals ” have been caught applying to work or volunteer at The Olympics, including 257 radical Islamists, 181 members of the far left and 95 from the far right. Parisians are still grumbling about road closures and bike lanes that abruptly end without warning, while human rights groups are denouncing “unacceptable risks to fundamental rights.” For The Games, this is nothing new. Under a March 2023 law, algorithms are allowed to search CCTV footage in real-time for eight “events” including crowd surges; abnormally large groups of people; abandoned objects; weapons or a person falling to the ground.
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