Facial Recognition Is Only the Beginning Public Books

"Research in Translation" is a series that showcases the most cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, or AI, technology. Does the relationship between power and AI mean that all people will be monitored all the time? We have become obsessed with automated facial-recognition technology. There is something about the capacity to remotely identify and track a person through space that piques terror within us. But with the continuing development of computer vision and video analytics, facial recognition may ultimately turn out to be one of the more benign applications of camera surveillance.