Former White House economist Kevin Hassett weighs in as Paris protests continue over hiking retirement age on'Your World.' The highest constitutional court in France issued a decision Wednesday supporting the use of AI-powered surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Olympics despite privacy concerns. The Constitutional Council ruled that certain contested provisions of a law relating to the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2024 do not infringe upon the right to respect for private life, because it ensures that development and implementation of algorithmic processing stays under people's control. After hours of heated debate last month, the French Parliament cleared the final legislative hurdle to pass a controversial bill to launch the experimental use of large-scale, real-time camera systems supported by an algorithm to identify suspicious behavior, including unsupervised luggage and sounding alarms warning of possible crowd stampedes, Politico reported. The system would be in effect until March 2025 under the law, but some left leaning French MPs had argued the use of AI-powered surveillance cameras in Paris would be disregarding the freedom to come and go, the right to demonstrate, freedom of opinion, and the right to respect for private life.

Amazon is reportedly using artificial intelligence (AI) to determine how much its delivery drivers should be paid by and their employment status. According to The Information, which first reported the news, the AI-powered surveillance cameras in delivery trucks are monitoring the driver's behavior and scoring them on safety infractions like tailgating, speeding or illegal U-turns. The news outlet says it obtained confidential documents that reveal cameras inside vans count the number of potentially dangerous actions – most equal one point, but others like running a stop sign are worth 10 points. The documents also states that contracted drives receive a report card each week, showing their performance that ranges from'fantastic' to'poor' that shows how many infractions occurred for every 100 trips. Those with five or fewer violations per 100 trips usually receive a'fantastic' score, according to The Information. The Amazon documents also states that the firm will remove some infractions to balance to account for'edge cases' where the cameras' AI software misidentifies violations.