I am an amateur Zoologist, nature lover and Canadian. I encourage all Canadians to learn about, explore and get involved with the incredible gifts that Canada’s Wilderness have to offer.
Researchers of all things natural, wildlife, and climate have also been applying different technologies using artificial intelligence as controls, scribes, and collectors of information for the last decade. Implanting tracers upon wildlife has been difficult in the past, as to keeping records given by these trackers, correlating and tallying for understandable information. This has changed with major implications for the human species as well. Extremely small trackers can be placed upon wildlife and last years allowing researchers the ability to find, follow and track these species in real time and over a number of years becoming fully familiar with them. Cameras are now so small that animals cannot spot them and destroy them as they have been doing.
AI has advanced so far as to predict an animal’s daily routine, health, habits and possible time of death. This information is applied to the present and future management of multiple waterfowl, birds, reptiles and other species. The advancement of technology is being applied also to the tracking of people, used by intelligence agencies, police and governmental sectors worldwide.
This should concern you. Cameras everywhere intended to catch speeders on our roadways, shoplifters in our retail environments, and those who enter corporate or government lobbies are all under camera inspection. While London may be the city with the most cameras per population density parameters, your local has cameras everywhere taking a picture of you and your passengers, those who go with you to restaurants, shops and the theatre as well. Eyes are upon you at all times until you get home right? Well, there are certain appliances, and electrical devices that monitor you also, some legal, some illegally added to these products. Not to mention the multiple camera’s in your near neighborhood positioned near and away from a neighbors home towards the street level. Much of this technology is scanned by humans, but imagine when all technology is controlled and scanned for summary decisions by AI.
Driving on a local road going to get some milk at the corner store. A.I. cameras keep an eye on you, collecting data as well as the possibility of cashing in on some costly tickets for speeding, not stopping at stop lights, strange behaviour while driving, and driving too close to buses, especially near schools. There presently are cameras in use that can do all the mentioned services and more. In my community, there are four-speed cameras. Information on the type of cameras and their capabilities is not known to the public. Also, there are cameras out there hidden from view intended to not only slow down traffic but keeping an eye upon the public. Local governments see these cameras as sources of revenue but also intelligence-gathering policing devices enabling them to fight crimes such as breaking and entering, drug traffic operations, prostitution and protection of governmental staff and property.
A.I. is becoming a great help in the management and protection of wildlife, while it presents itself as a possible threat to our personal and business privacy. The future holds challenges to the boundaries of what the government’s expectations are vs our privacy and personal protection. Cheaters, criminals, and those who attempt to hide themselves and their actions beware. Big Brother has its eyes on you!
The government has its eyes on you
so best beware where you roam.
Got its eyes on you
so don’t stray far from home.
Big Brother set its electronic spies on you,
They will check all you do.
So darling, be wise
and keep your eyes on the government too.(based upon Fred Astaire’s song)
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
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