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Las Vegas sheriff tells a16z partners what’s next on his wish list: AI for bodycams
Vegas police received funding for tech like drones and license plate readers from Ben Horowitz. Now it wants AI to go through police footage.
The city’s Sheriff Kevin McMahill said on a podcast with Horowitz and partner Marc Andreessen that he wants to use AI to blur faces or obscure sensitive information from body camera footage. The giant Silicon Valley venture firm released the episode on Monday, just a few weeks after TechCrunch revealed that Horowitz has been financing the Vegas police department’s purchasing of a number of a16z portfolio companies’ products. Police tech juggernaut Axon has also released a series of AI tools, one of which identifies objects in body cam footage to expedite the redaction process.
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