Automation and Preemption: Language Encoding, Biases, and Surveillance

🔍 Acknowledgment of traditional custodians of the land and indigenous knowledge.

📊 Discussion on the fate of language and narrative in the contemporary technological era.

🌐 Examples of automated intervention and the potential obsolescence of human language.

💡 Language as an encoded and uploaded model raises questions about its role and how it operates.

🔍 Automated surveillance bypasses linguistic and representational frames to directly affect individuals and groups.

🔄 The process of automated data collection leads to automated data processing and eventually automated response.

💡 Automated surveillance involves biases of automation, such as preemption, which anticipates consumer desires and predicts criminal activity.

🔍 Preemption is exemplified by predictive policing, where forces are allocated based on predictions of criminal activity.

🌐 Prevention, on the other hand, focuses on understanding causal factors and intervening at a broader level to lower criminal activity.

🔍 Automated surveillance relies on correlation and prediction to modulate causal variables and catch criminal activity at its moments of emergence.

⏱️ There are contrasting logics of simulation: one leads to stasis while the other focuses on ongoing intervention to stop criminal activity.

👁️ Total surveillance is not just about being watched all the time, but also relies on the spectacle of surveillance to instill discipline.

📷 The current security surveillance market only records crimes after they happen, but with artificial intelligence and cloud-based technologies, a smart camera called Athena has been developed to detect and prevent crimes in real time by alerting authorities.

⏰ Athena's software can detect potential fights milliseconds before they occur, allowing for preemptive intervention. This raises questions about the possibilities and implications of automated surveillance and intervention in the brief moments before criminal activities happen.

🔍 The concept of post-representational surveillance challenges Foucault's panopticon by suggesting that constant comprehensive monitoring, without the knowledge of being watched, may be more effective in anticipating and preventing future criminal activities.

👁️ The effectiveness of surveillance depends on individuals internalizing the monitoring gaze.

📷🌐 Framelessness in information collection allows for the collection of data without limitations of a frame.

🎥📸 Memory capture through cameras raises questions about selective framing and the flaws of subjectivity.

📷 The goal of surveillance is to capture the primal scene and collect all types of data for automated systems.

🔒 Automated surveillance systems operate without representation and control access based on automated data processing.

🤖 Operational logics in surveillance limit deliberation and political action, impacting social processes and representation.