New Boston Surveillance Surfaces: Who Watches the Watchers?
Boston is getting a next generation closed-circuit television (CCTV) network to help monitor for public threats. As noted by a recent Daily Caller article, the system designed by Texas-based Behavioral Recognition Systems (BRS) will feature a kind of artificial intelligence (AI) which allows it to “recognize, learn and permanently register abnormal behavior.”
While the system has real potential, it also comes with risk: Who’s watching these watchers?