AI is now watching stadiums, power plants, and transport hubs to prevent crime in real time. But the latest crime stopping technology doesn’t use facial recognition. 🧵1/4

Electricity grids going dark. Transport disrupted. Rising grey zone attacks on critical infrastructure are getting harder to stop. Augur is building the AI to fight back. Their technology processes CCTV feeds and tracks the movement of suspects. 🧵2/4

Augur deliberately avoided facial recognition. It’s not just an ethics call. It’s also the better engineering decision. 3D spatial tracking works more reliably in real-world conditions where facial recognition often simply fails. 🧵3/4

Real-time crime prevention used to mean more police. Now it means better AI infrastructure. Full piece by @timmpsmith: infiniteloop.media/p/meet-the-ai-… 🧵4/4