Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms

Session Submission Type: Author meets critics

Abstract

What are the new questions raised by AI for the prevention and detection of crime? How can we rationalise the Amazon Ring doorbell and Tesla’s Sentry Mode? How can algoracism be identified, and what should we think of data donation? What is AI Crime? Surveillance today cannot be understood without an awareness of how AI and algorithms have become increasingly central in the governance of security. They have led to a substantial expansion in the depth and breadth of surveillance, ranging from mass data collection to mass invasion of privacy. In Making Surveillance Public, Marc Schuilenburg explores the deployment of AI applications, asking who is using them, what their aims are, what outcomes and societal impacts they lead to, and against whom they are used. To this end, he makes a case for a digital criminology centred on sociological questions of power, knowledge and AI experiences.

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Policing and Law enforcement (Policing WG)

Critics

• Marleen Easton, Universiteit Gent

• Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford

• Adam Michael Edwards, Cardiff University

• Rosamunde Van Brakel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Book Author

• Marc Schuilenburg, Professor Digital Surveillance Erasmus University Rotterdam