If the drones are "providing information" to the police, it's only a matter of time before their AI hallucinates something that gets someone killed. We've already seen AI gun detection services that report things like Doritos bags as guns.

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grimcompanion 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

OTOH it will provide more surveillance of the police themselves. Humans are also bad at gun detection (sometimes willfully so) and this provides another check.

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FireBeyond 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Watch for Flock footage to be "unavailable"/"deleted"/"corrupt" just as often as bodycam footage is.

	▲	IAmBroom 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not as often; it creates friction and requires cooperation from others (or an officer with unusual skill and access, presumably). It will absolutely happen in corrupt departments, or those involving an officer with those skills and access. But data that is uploaded is infinitely harder to erase than simply turning off the camera in the first place.
	▲	gretch 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's right. And also just like the missing epstein footage. Because it's a social problem, not a technology problem. At the same time, just because these instances of "missing" tape happen, does not mean that body cams and jailhouse CCTV are useless. We would not take those away. Likewise for the future drone footage

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scottyah 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a very bleak (and awfully sus) outlook if you think providing more information to people who need to make decisions that could save or end lives is a bad thing.

	▲	pesus an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's more "sus" that you blindly trust the police, politicians, and billionaires that have a history of discrimination, violence, and oppression and attempt to slander those who don't. Not to mention blindly trusting AI systems with someone's life - the only reason one would do that is because they either stand to profit from it or don't understand how they work. Are you really willing and eager to put your life in the hands of a piece of software that can't distinguish a gun and a Doritos bag? Remember, oppression and invasion of privacy is still bad even if it isn't currently happening to you. If you think you can't be a target, you're sorely mistaken.
	▲	Quinner 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Those people have proven very untrustworthy and are structurally unaccountable.
	▲	thomastjeffery 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You are giving those people the benefit of the doubt. It's been proven many many times that police will use "more information" to excuse their own decision to use violence. A decision that they already made well before the incident.