Surveillance and AI Hype

Surveillance and AI Hype

Critical analysis of surveillance technologies and AI marketing

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Critical analysis of surveillance technologies and AI marketing

Projects

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Tracking and Evaluating AI Use in Police Surveillance

ongoing

Police departments across the US are increasingly using AI tools for surveillance and automation of police work, such as filing police reports from body cam footage. We are working to evaluate the risks and failures of using AI in high-risk scenarios like law enforcement.

Started: 2025-06-01
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NE
Dana Calacci
Tianqi Kou
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Mapping the AI Hype Cycle

ongoing

We are using a corpus of hundreds of articles and press releases about AI use in law enforcement automation and surveillance as a case example to theorize and empirically examine how AI 'hype' spreads

Started: 2025-05-01
Tianqi Kou
Dana Calacci

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People

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Tianqi Kou

he / him

PhD Candidate

Penn State IST

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MN

Maya Nagiub

she / her

Undergraduate Researcher

Penn State IST

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NE

Nasser Eledroos

he / him

Affiliate

Color of Change

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Dana Calacci

she / her

Director

Asst. Professor, Penn State IST

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