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NYC Bets on AI Surveillance to Clean Up Subways, Predict Criminal Behavior
By analyzing real-time security camera footage, the tech aims to identify 'problematic behaviors' and notify the NYPD if it thinks a person will commit a crime. Better hope it gets it right.
"Using artificial intelligence—a technology notoriously unreliable and biased—to monitor our subways and send in police risks exacerbating these disparities and creating new problems," New York Civil Liberties Union Senior Policy Counsel Justin Harrison tells Gothamist. "This system will become yet another powerful instrument in today's Russia for the surveillance and control of citizens," says Russia-based human rights organizer Andrei Fedorkov, according to RFE/RL. "If people can’t go to the subway and not be afraid of being stabbed or thrown in front of tracks or burnt...we’re going to pull your money," says US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a March interview on Fox.
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