It's also important to note that every single AI identification schema to date has a disturbingly high false positive rate for it to be used in military or policing actions. Innocent people are being arrested or killed, and yet often the equipment itself isn't even owned or operated by the government.

I completely agree but I still can't help but jokingly say that innocent people are being arrested and killed already so it wouldn't be much of a change 😄

PSA: Add the movie Minority Report to your homeschool curriculum

Unless someone has invented time travel, there’s no such thing as pre-crime. Just think if someone was trying to use this “pre” technology for their own benefit: I’m a pre-movie star, so put me in your movie. I’m a pre-billionaire, so give me that Ferrari. I’m a pre-king, so render unto me all that which I am divinely entitled to. You’d tell that 🤡 to fuck right off, as you should with pre-crime snake oil salesmen

That was my first thought too. 😬

True but that won't stop governments implementing it "for our own safety"

Walz will not hesitate to sign off on this.

I believe that the existing issue of arrests on false charges/misidentification is due to the abrogation of responsibility on the parts of the decision makers. These AI tools will further contribute to that problem, but it also presents a huge leap in the number of misidentifications leading to death (esp. military use, as in Gaza currently) or incarceration/charges (like the street cams the London "Bladerunners" are famously disabling) already.

Yes absolutely, AI pretty much only intensifies existing trends that humans have come up with on their own in addition to providing a convenient way to outsource agency and accountability. I have no trouble imagining a version of the old Nuremberg defense that has people claiming that they were simply acting on AI-generated recommendations. I have heard of the Bladerunners and while some claims and numbers sound exaggerated, I obviously hope they're real. I've only been to London once in 2018 and I did feel watched quite a bit, at least in poorer areas, but since then the number of cameras seems to have exploded so what I've seen then must've been nothing compared to now. Chilling indeed.