This week I came across an article on The Wall StreetJournal about how artificial intelligence could soon enhance real time police
surveillance. There are technology companies that are working with some police departments
all across the United States to help develop a video surveillance and body
cameras that could identify faces in real time. The new software uses an
algorithm to help tell the officer right then and there through the body camera
or video surveillance camera, that it has found a suspect. After doing so the
officer could then take the action needed. A Chicago based Motorola Solutions,
a maker of police communications and body camera technology, just recently
partnered with an artificial intelligence company named Neurala to help produce
a body camera and to be ready by this fall. There hope is for it to be able to identify a
suspect or missing child and pick them out in a crowd.
With this technology, it could create police to make more
mistakes because the technology isn’t always 100% accurate. This could come into
effect with darker faces, which are harder for the technology to match
accurately compared to those of a lighter skin. Companies have taken some steps
to avoid and ensure there is no bias by feeding millions of publicly available
photos into the algorithm and testing it to identify false positives and
matches.
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