If Vietnam was the first televised war, is the use of drone a major escalation?
https://www.wired.com/story/drones-russia-ukraine-war/
Small Drones Are Giving Ukraine an Unprecedented Edge
IN THE SNOWY streets of the north Ukrainian town of Trostyanets, the Russian missile system fires rockets every second. Tanks and military vehicles are parked on either side of the blasting artillery system, positioned among houses and near the town’s railway system. The weapon is not working alone, though. Hovering tens of meters above it and recording the assault is a Ukrainian drone. The drone isn’t a sophisticated military system, but a small, commercial machine that anyone can buy.
Since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine at the end of February, drones of all shapes and sizes have been used by both sides in the conflict. At one end of the scale are large military drones that can be used for aerial surveillance and to attack targets on the ground. In contrast, small commercial drones can be flown by people without any specific training and carried around in a suitcase-sized box. While both types of drones have been used in previous conflicts, the current scale of small, commercial drone use in Ukraine is unprecedented.
Drone videos shared and posted to social media depict the brutality of the war and reveal what has happened during battles. Drones have captured fighting in the destroyed Ukrainian city of Bucha, with lines of tanks moving around streets and troops moving alongside them. Commercial drones have helped journalists document the sheer scale of destruction in Kyiv and Mariupol, flying over burnt-out buildings that have been reduced to rubble.
What did the DMV do with facial recognition software? Did they have a database created from police files?
City Council approves agreement for LPD to use updated DMV facial recognition software
Since September, Lincoln police have used new state Department of Motor Vehicles facial recognition software to help them identify 23 possible suspects in crimes ranging from shoplifting to burglary to illegal gun purchases.
The use of that tool — one that civil liberty advocates still have concerns about despite evolving technology — was formalized last month when the Lincoln City Council approved a memorandum of understanding with the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.
… In 2013, the City Council approved an agreement with the DMV to allow police to run searches as part of criminal investigations — but didn’t allow officers to use findings as the sole basis for an arrest.
… Jared Minary, an LPD video technician, said in reality, police rarely used the old DMV software because it was really only effective when the image police had was of a person looking directly at a camera — which rarely happens with surveillance videos.
But the new software also used by other law enforcement agencies is more adept at analyzing surveillance photos. For instance, Sims said, it can take an image at an angle and build the second side of the face based on algorithms. Still, LPD will only run searches if the image it has is good enough quality to successfully search. LPD doesn't run searches based on police sketches or "look-alike" photos of celebrities — cases noted in some national studies of use of the technology.
(Related)
https://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1790&context=rwu_LR
Defrosting the Chill: How Facial Recognition Technology Threatens Free Speech
New tech and a new industry?
https://philpapers.org/rec/LINHTS-3
How to Save Face & the Fourth Amendment: Developing an Algorithmic Auditing and Accountability Industry for Facial Recognition Technology in Law Enforcement
For more than two decades, police in the United States have used facial recognition to surveil civilians. Local police departments deploy facial recognition technology to identify protestors’ faces while federal law enforcement agencies quietly amass driver’s license and social media photos to build databases containing billions of faces. Yet, despite the widespread use of facial recognition in law enforcement, there are neither federal laws governing the deployment of this technology nor regulations settings standards with respect to its development. To make matters worse, the Fourth Amendment—intended to limit police power and enacted to protect against unreasonable searches—has struggled to rein in new surveillance technologies since its inception. This Article examines the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence leading up to Carpenter v. United States and suggests that the Court is reinterpreting the amendment for the digital age. Still, the too-slow expansion of privacy protections raises challenging questions about racial bias, the legitimacy of police power, and ethical issues in artificial intelligence design. This Article proposes the development of an algorithmic auditing and accountability market that not only sets standards for AI development and limitations on governmental use of facial recognition but encourages collaboration between public interest technologists and regulators. Beyond the necessary changes to the technological and legal landscape, the current system of policing must also be reevaluated if hard-won civil liberties are to endure.
Specific to policing?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4096953
Ethical AI in American Policing
We know there are problems in the use of artificial intelligence in policing, but we don’t quite know what to do about them. One can also find many reports and white papers today offering principles for the responsible use of AI systems by the government, civil society organizations, and the private sector. Yet, largely missing from the current debate in the United States is a shared framework for thinking about the ethical and responsible use of AI that is specific to policing. There are many AI policy guidance documents now, but their value to the police is limited. Simply repeating broad principles about the responsible use of AI systems are less helpful than ones that 1) take into account the specific context of policing, and 2) consider the American experience of policing in particular. There is an emerging consensus about what ethical and responsible values should be part of AI systems. This essay considers what kind of ethical considerations can guide the use of AI systems by American police.
Hate jury duty? Then read this!
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/716/
2022 A LEGAL ODYSSEY: THIS MISSION IS TOO IMPORTAINT FOR US TO ALLOW COMPUTERS TO JEOPARDIZE IT
The purpose of this paper is to discover if Artificial Intelligence could and should replace human jurists. By looking at the two theories that offer a way to apply the law (legal formalism and legal realism), multiple different answers to this question emerge. Looking at the corner stone of legal realism which is considered empathy, reasons as to why A.I. in the court room begin to emerge. Many studies and data were included in this study that covered a variety of topics such as A.I. experiments, legal data, and psychological emotions. In summary, the results of the research are that A.I. would apply a strict application of the law as a human jurist. While a legal formalist would support this, such a formalistic view could hinder the evolution and adaptation of the law.
Tools & Techniques. Any failure will be epic!
Pajamas at work? AI startup offers deepfake wardrobe for meetings
With video conferencing becoming an essential work tool amid the coronavirus pandemic, a Tokyo-based startup has developed a way to digitally make users look professional even when they had just rolled out of bed.
Users simply need to download EmbodyMe's app to their computer and upload professional photos of themselves. The app then generates a more polished version of their image using artificial intelligence, so users can attend Zoom and Teams meetings looking like they are in a full suit while still wearing pajamas.
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