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The Surveillance AI Pipeline by Kalluri, Pratyusha Ria; Agnew, William; Cheng, Myra; Owens, Kentrell; Soldaini, Luca; Birhane, Abeba is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Surveillance AI Pipeline about?

A rapidly growing number of voices argue that AI research, and computer vision in particular, is powering mass surveillance. Yet the direct path from computer vision research to surveillance has remained obscured and difficult to assess. Here, we reveal the Surveillance AI pipeline by analyzing three decades of computer vision research papers and downstream patents, more than 40,000 documents. We find the large majority of annotated computer vision papers and patents self-report their technology enables extracting data about humans. Moreover, the majority of these technologies specifically enable extracting data about human bodies and body parts. We present both quantitative and rich qualitative analysis illuminating these practices of human data extraction. Studying the roots of this pipeline, we find that institutions that prolifically produce computer vision research, namely elite universities and "big tech" corporations, are subsequently cited in thousands of surveillance patents. Further, we find consistent evidence against the narrative that only these few rogue entities are contributing to surveillance. Rather, we expose the fieldwide norm that when an institution, nation, o

Author

Kalluri, Pratyusha Ria; Agnew, William; Cheng, Myra; Owens, Kentrell; Soldaini, Luca; Birhane, Abeba

Published

2023

Language

EN