The Next Surveillance Boom Is Taking Flight

The sky is becoming the newest jurisdiction, where algorithms write the rules faster than lawmakers can read them.

Christina Maas

The FBI is going drone shopping again. But this time, they’re not just looking for something that can hover over a crime scene or follow a fleeing suspect.

According to new federal procurement documents, the Bureau wants to bolt artificial intelligence onto its unmanned aerial systems, an innovation that sounds less like law enforcement and more like a Silicon Valley beta test for dystopia.

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