American Consequences - August 2019

room, he saw the technology system put to the test in real time. After adding his photo and name as a suspect to the police database, Sudworth hit the streets to see how long it would take law enforcement to find him. Starting near the city center, he began walking toward the local bus station. After getting out of the car, he counted three CCTV cameras on the first bridge he encountered. There was no point in trying to hide. He saw cameras everywhere. From there, he headed toward the bus station. Cameras identified his face while he entered the building and sent an alert to nearby police. As he strolled through the building, chatting with his camera, he noticed the authorities circling around him. Uncertain if they were in on the joke, he decided to surrender and walk off quietly with the police. The whole exercise took just seven minutes. We know this sounds like something out of some futuristic movie, but innovative technologies like facial recognition are now becoming mainstream. And they’re changing the way we run our lives. Many of you may already use facial recognition on your smartphones. The Galaxy S9 from

Samsung and the iPhone X from Apple both carry this feature. You can use it to unlock your phone or to confirm your identity to make financial transactions more secure. Facial recognition is just one application for A.I.. And as we have seen in China, it can be Think about all the A.I. systems just in your phone... They’re what help music apps like Apple Music, Pandora, or Spotify know what songs you like. The technology embedded in the app keeps track of what you listen to and analyzes the characteristics of other songs to create a similar list. Netflix does the same with your movies. Amazon does it with books and other products you buy. Google places ads in front of you for products that may interest you based on your past searches. A.I. makes machines smarter. And it is becoming big business. In 2018, the A.I. market was worth around $9 billion, according to research firm Statista. By 2025, estimates put that number at almost $90 billion, 10 times higher. A.I. IS DRIVING OPPORTUNITY IN HEALTH CARE A.I. and machine learning are already playing critical roles in medicine... particularly in imaging. There are more than 250,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. this year. Pathologists have to analyze used to make streets safer. But A.I. is more than that...

A.I. IT’S GOOD

IT’S VERY GOOD IT’S SCARY GOOD

It could make your fortune It could save your life It could send you to jail

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