Robot Traffic Police Put China’s AI Surveillance Push on City Streets

Robot Traffic Police Put China’s AI Surveillance Push on City Streets

Chinese authorities are putting robot traffic police and unmanned patrol vehicles to work on street-level public security—adding cameras, visual recognition, remote police warnings, data uploads, cloud-issued commands, and violation capture to ordinary traffic control. The systems are being presented by Chinese officials and government-linked outlets as tools to reduce routine police work. But the deployments are taking place in a country where …