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NYC Bets on AI Surveillance to Clean Up Subways, Predict Criminal Behavior

NYC Bets on AI Surveillance to Clean Up Subways, Predict Criminal Behavior

PCMag
By analyzing real-time security camera footage, the tech aims to identify 'problematic behaviors' and notify the NYPD if it thinks a person will commit a crime. Better hope it gets it right.

All public transit systems are digging themselves out of the tough pandemic years, but New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has had an especially brutal stretch after a string of concerning crimes, and it's now looking to AI to make the subways safer.

The MTA is …