In WA, police have been trialling AI facial recognition software to scan pedestrians on the street and compare their faces against watchlists

WA is almost a separate country at this point

…the country needs to handle the rise of AI with caution and should learn lessons from the retroactive regulation of social media.

"We need transparency, he said. “The public needs to be assured of where and when it’s being used and not being used, and under what circumstances and under what limits”.

“There’s still the social licence here, but I suspect if we’re not careful, it will disappear very rapidly.”

We need to be more vocal. AI is already being used in many unlawful ways. Again, what are we leaving our children?

Everyone is possible terrorist in the eyes of the justice department

would be okay if the people in charge were not the criminals