In order to prevent drivers from playing with their phones while driving, they plan to add AI to camera surveillance

Last week, New South Wales, Australia announced a plan: In order to prevent drivers from playing with their mobile phones while driving, they plan to add artificial intelligence to camera surveillance. The artificial intelligence will automatically mark the suspect and issue a warning letter to the driver.

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"This system is designed to change the driving culture of everyone," said New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Michael Corboy, and the police hope to pass This technology will reduce road deaths by a third in two years.

It looks good to add artificial intelligence to the surveillance system, but some experts are a little worried that the dark side of this technology will gradually show up-weakening civil rights, strengthening social prejudice, and even leading society to gradually dictatorship. The researchers also said that the accuracy of artificial intelligence in identifying illegal acts is currently questionable, and it is very likely that good citizens who comply with laws and regulations will be mistakenly labeled as suspects.

In addition, prejudices such as race and gender that appear in humans are also likely to be reflected in artificial intelligence algorithms-and this will eventually lead to more serious social inequality.

"We want people not only to be free, but also to feel free. This means that they don’t always have to worry about an unknown, invisible object interpreting every action and word in themselves... If so, people will They will start to constantly monitor themselves, worrying that everything they do will be misinterpreted, which will have a negative impact on their lives.” Said senior policy analyst Jay Stanley.