This article is using every trick in the dystopian playbook to try to emotionally appeal to people. Protecting women, especially the young girls!

"I think we have to develop solutions that put the responsibility back into other places like public authorities, owners of spaces, police forces," she says.

But she still comes out and says what she really wants: more power vested into private, wealthy owners of spaces, to the state, and to the police.

Surely nothing can go wrong. Surely this is about equality for everyone and it definitely won't disproportionately impact men of color. Surely this won't run afoul of any tricky edge cases like trans people. Surely this won't be used to deliscriminate against the poors while still allowing anyone in an expensive suit to do whatever the fuck they want.

If unusual behaviours are detected, for example a large group of people moves suddenly or in an unexpected way, security teams on the ground are alerted and can check if there is a problem.

Yes this will definitely be used only for its intended purpose

The idea is, on that deserted railway platform, the lasers would spot the unnecessarily close choice of seat, registering it as unusual and a potential threat. Security teams would then be alerted and could either direct CCTV for a closer look or send staff in person if needed.

Me when I get arrested for sitting down in public. This is definitely not going to drive young men towards figures like andrew tate

The UK is a dystopian shithole. They took 1984 and used it as an instruction manual.

When talking about surveilling society at large, as this person is suggesting, it's important to remember that there is no such thing as surveilling a subset of the population.

Everyone who crosses the boundaries of surveillance, without exception, gets surveilled.

When you point a camera at a crowd, it does not selectively exclude everyone but your chosen subject: a camera photographs all. People and systems behind the camera then manipulate and match that data to suit their objectives, and that's where it becomes completely unaccountable, because the data has already been collected on all.

Today, supposedly, it's dastardly men, the suggestion being that all others will be excluded and thus this extended surveillance of all public spaces must be benign for everyone who is not a dastardly man. But in other places and times, it was runaway slaves, or homosexuals. Recently it has been women seeking abortions and trans people and immigrants. Tomorrow it will be those guilty of wrongthink.

And all are surveilled, because everyone is surveilled.

This surveillance WILL be used to the maximum of its capability, and very quickly, regardless of whatever guidelines or original purpose or its stated goals are said to be in the beginning.

These are nothing but lines in the sand that will be washed away almost immediately, because there's just no way to exclude specific groups from widespread surveillance, and our collective governments are far too corrupt and unstable and greedy for power to ever cut off their own access to it.

Surely a society that has shown little care for women's safety would never pretend to care about women's safety to justify pushing their surveillance state forward.

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

If students have to use AI in order to make it look like they're not using AI — what on earth will a system like this do to people? Quite how it will be able to read the intent of people's actions without throwing up a huge number of false-positives is something that I don't understand.

And quite what workers are supposed to do when they receive an 'alert' of this nature, I'm not sure. Go up to the individual and tell them that their behaviour has been flagged as suspicious? Way to make me feel more anxious in public.

We're talking the same AI systems that protect children from lethal bags of chips, and the same kind of premise that lead to vulnerable women getting their info stolen?

What the fuck‽

Edit: this was meant as a firm and horrified disagreement as a feminist, not as actual confusion or surprise. The UK has been finding whatever justification they can pull out of their ass to increase surveillance and control

There is absolutely no clarity on how this laser based system monitors people on the ground. Is it like a radar? How does the system determine from a laser that the target is a woman, man or non binary?

More needs to be done to protect women but mass surveillance with iffy claims about privacy ain't the way

Almost all assaults are done by people the victim knows, in private. This does nothing to prevent that.

A man arrives and sits right beside her, making her feel uncomfortable and unsafe.

It's time to patent public bench with gender taser.

Why not sell it as a big laser quest game? #YesAllMen /jk

Women are slightly more than half the population (51%?) and experience the most harrassment. I think something needs to be done but maybe not a dystopian measure. How about a shared register of dangerous men made by competent devs (not outsourced) that don't leave the s3 bucket open to the intetnet unencrypted? Or - given that the police are useless - make the process of getting a restraining order more straight forward, require less evidence.

We'll do anything but force men to take accountability for their actions and to change our culture.

But the system she is developing does not use cameras and, instead, monitors crowds as anonymous dots on a map. Only when it spots a potential issue are CCTV cameras directed on the individuals, or security personnel sent to the scene.

"Our aim there is to respect public privacy - so really understand that people don't want to be continually monitored when there's no need to be - but also make spaces safe," she says. The process has undergone simulated trials and will soon move to tests in real-life scenarios.

Either none of the commenters read the article or they're all the type confused by women choosing the bear.

Nothing but fragile male egos on display.

Collecting data to allocate limited resources and you're all acting like it's a personal attack on your manhood with some are as an reason to lean in on their toxic masculinity.