Joe Biden rubbed his hands in glee at what AI just determined about this vehicle
Advancements in tech are happening at breakneck speed and most people have not had time to deliberate over the ramifications.
But authoritarians are always on the cutting edge of twisting new technology
And now Joe Biden is rubbing his hands in glee at what AI just determined about this vehicle. New technology is being used for a disturbing surveillance purpose
Science fiction movies and television shows like Minority Report and Person of Interest have detailed stories about pre-crime.
But reality is catching up to fiction.
Artificial intelligence is being used to monitor license plates and find suspicious driving patterns.The case of a New York resident named David Zayas exhibited the frightening power of AI being used in law enforcement. Forbes reported that “David Zayas was driving down the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale. His car, a gray Chevrolet, was entirely unremarkable, as was its speed. But to the Westchester County Police Department, the car was cause for concern and Zayas a possible criminal; its powerful new AI tool had identified the vehicle’s behavior as suspicious.”Zayas did not observably break any laws, but AI flagged his activity as unusual.
Forbes added that “[s]earching through a database of 1.6 billion license plate records collected over the last two years from locations across New York State, the AI determined that Zayas’ car was on a journey typical of a drug trafficker. According to a Department of Justice prosecutor filing, it made nine trips from Massachusetts to different parts of New York between October 2020 and August 2021 following routes known to be used by narcotics pushers and for conspicuously short stays.”
Guilty or not, AI will determine if you’ve driven a suspicious route today Police officers pulled over Zayas, and found 112 grams of crack cocaine, a pistol, and $34,000 in cash.
Zayas pleaded guilty to drug trafficking.
The refrain from surveillance state apologists is that noncriminals have nothing to worry about, but that is not the point.
The powers of the state always expand, as does the mission of law enforcement.
For instance, it’s not hard to imagine someone who attended multiple political rallies being put on some watchlist. Zayas’s attorney Ben Gold wrote in a court motion, “This is the specter of modern surveillance that the Fourth Amendment must guard against…This is the systematic development and deployment of a vast surveillance network that invades society’s reasonable expectation of privacy. With no judicial oversight, this type of system operates at the caprice of every officer with access to it.”
After what happened with the totalitarian COVID regime, it’s easy to see how such a surveillance system could be badly misused.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
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