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UK Home Secretary Proposes AI 'Panopticon' Surveillance for Criminals
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood aims to use AI for constant surveillance and predictive policing, investing £4 million in an AI-driven map to prevent crime by 2030.
- On Monday, UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood proposed AI-based surveillance invoking Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon and Minority Report-style policing, saying the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.
- Police chiefs are evaluating around 100 projects testing AI to combat crime, with Sir Andy Marsh endorsing predictive tools to identify potential criminality earlier and ease busy courts.
- Greater Manchester Police already use `AI assistants` at crime scenes for `instant access to criminal law`, while forces consider monitoring 1000 men seen as highest risk, echoing Minority Report.
- Political and rights groups immediately denounced the plan as authoritarian; Maggie Chapman called it `absolutely shocking` and Neil Cowan warned the Panopticon vision is `profoundly alarming` for marginalised communities.
- Critics compare the plan to Foucault's account of surveillance, linking it to totalitarian control and citing care.data and the Online Safety Act as failed UK precedents.
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Artificial Intelligence, Crime And Prisons: Mahmood Revisits The Panopticon
Reforming the prison population would entail the use of a panopticon design, an all-seeing architecture where guards could witness the activity of all prisoners through the day or night without them necessarily knowing when they were being watched.
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Shabana Mahmood’s panopticon won’t reduce crime
The purpose of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon was to allow a guard to monitor any inmate of a prison at any time, without the inmate being aware of the surveillance. Yet despite the panopticon being deemed too cruel for convicted criminals, even by the standards of 19th-century justice, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has now specifically referred to the device as being part of her “ultimate vision” to keep an eye on criminals — and by extension the…
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