This is exactly, precisely the opposite of what the impact will be.

For example:

- every technology has false positives. False positives here will mean 4th amendment violations and will add an undue burden on people who share physical characteristics with those in the training data. (This is the updated "fits the description."

- this technology will predictably be used to enable dragnets in particular areas. Those areas will not necessarily be chosen on any rational basis.

- this is all predictable because we have watched the War on Drugs for 3 generations. We have all seen how it was a tactical militaristic problem in cities and became a health concern/addiction issues problem when enforced in rural areas. There is approximately zero chance this technology becomes the first use of law enforcement that applies laws evenly.

Not only is this incredibly naive, it misses that whole "consent of the governed" thing. I don't want AI involved in policing. They are bad enough and have so little accountability without "computer says so" to fall back on, That's all AI will do, make a bad situation worse.

The targets for the AI are still set by humans, the data the AI was trained on is still created by humans. Involving a computer in the system doesn't magically make it less biased.

Same could be said about the computer systems that have been developed in the last 20 years. But that hasn’t happened…

are you sure it won't enabled targeted enforcement for people law enforcement finds irritating, more than evenly applied law? It's still people setting the priorities and exercising discretion about charging.

I wonder how many laws and sentencing guidelines etc are formulated with an implicit assumption that most of the time, people aren't caught.

We can't even make hand driers that don't discriminate on the basis of race. You think making complex law enforcement decisions based on data is going to be easier?

None of the destruction of your rights has lead to improvement in clearance rates.

Crimes aren't solved, despite having a literal panopticon. This view is just false.

Cops are choosing to not do their job. Giving them free access to all private information hasn't fixed that.

Meanwhile all AI face recognition software works poorely on non-caucasians.

Yeah its not like the "AI" manufacturers have their own biases that are reflected in the model.

For example, Deepseek won't give you critical information about the communist party and Grok won't criticise Elon Musk

Why do you write so many low-effort, disingenuous, inflammatory comments? They're "not even wrong", yet they just suck energy right out of productive discussion as people inevitably respond to one part of your broken framing, and then they're off to the races arguing about nonsense.

The main problem with the law not being applied evenly is structural - how do you get the people tasked with enforcing the law to enforce the law against their own ingroup? "AI" and the surveillance society will not solve this, rather they are making it ten times worse.

LE has been getting increasingly advanced technology over the years. The only thing that’s increased is their ability to repress and oppress.

Go lick boots elsewhere.