Are we ready for AI body cams?

Computerworld.com reported that “The first body cams were primitive. They were enormous, had narrow, 68-degree fields of view, had only 16GB of internal storage, and had batteries that lasted only four hours. Body cams now usually have high-resolution sensors, GPS, infrared for low-light conditions, and fast charging. They can be automatically activated through Bluetooth sensors, weapon release, or sirens. They use backend management systems to store, analyze, and share video footage.”  The September 27, 2024 article entitled “What happens when everybody winds up wearing ‘AI body cams’?” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3537041/what-happens-when-everybody-winds-up-wearing-ai-body-cams.html) included the following comments:

 Body cams have become ubiquitous in US law enforcement, with all police departments serving populations of more than 1 million implementing them by 2020. Nationwide, 79% of officers work in departments that use body cams.

 It’s designed to solve the problem of sifting through thousands of hours of footage to extract actionable information, with vastly more advanced versions coming soon to body cams for police and across all sectors. 

 As the use of AI body cams grows to include all police departments, security personnel, and large numbers of employees across many industries, the public will also be getting AI body cams.

I’ve written in the past about the mainstreaming of AI glasses with cameras for multimodal AI. Remember Google’s Project Astra demo from Google I/O 2024? In that video, a researcher picked up a pair of AI glasses running Google Gemini and conversed with the AI about what they both were looking at. 

 What do you think about AI Body cam?