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The Financial Times<\/i> has a good article<\/a> on how AI is changing the capabilities of video surveillance, with information from both Israel\/Iran and Russia.<\/p>\n

I wrote about<\/a> this sort of thing a few years ago, how AI enables mass spying in the way that computers and networks enabled mass surveillance. The interesting development in the article is that AI allows people to ask natural language questions about video footage to AIs\u2014and AIs can answer them.<\/p>\n

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In contrast with older tools restricted to a few dozen preset searches, these new tools allow an almost unlimited range of enquiries by enabling language-based searches on video.<\/p>\n

That lets intelligence officers hunt through massive streams of videos using simple search terms, such as two men handing a bag to each other; a person who has changed their appearance, or has changed clothes multiple times in a day; or a vehicle that has recently been painted over, or has driven past the same spot several times in a short period.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the holy grail of surveillance,\u201d said a European official whose country uses the technology on its cities. \u201cWe are able to look for behaviour, not objects \u00ad it has created a world of new possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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