Dallas School District Installs AI Surveillance to Monitor Student Behavior

Here’s a chilling news item reported by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity:

Last week, the Dallas Independent School District was boasting about its new pilot project, undertaken along with the company Davista. The pilot project, the school district says, uses AI to extensively monitor each student and then sound the alarm if a student deviates from his “baseline” behavior.

There are so many disturbing and dystopian aspects to this information.

First, using AI — artificial intelligence — to monitor student behavior is allowing an incredibly complex and advanced algorithm (which is really all AI is at this point) to record children’s behavior, removing the human element altogether. The “alarm” that the surveillance system will sound is triggered not by a concerned parent or teacher or administrator, but by a computer that targets, tracks, and predicts the future behavior of children under its never-blinking electronic eye.

Anyone who pays attention to technology knows that the rapidly expanding use and misuse of AI is a topic of intense debate, with some experts in that field expressing concern that the technology is advancing too quickly and could some day — very soon — develop a means of decision-making beyond the control or coding of a human being.