How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
- If you weren’t on campus this summer, then something you didn’t see – perhaps by design – was the installation of hundreds of small eyeball-shaped surveillance cameras.
- Building 1 alone now has 6-7 cameras per floor and The Tech has reported on the locations of more than 500 others.[1] Cameras point towards faculty members’ offices and bathroom entrances.
- Some are so close to faculty offices that their microphones could reasonably be expected to pick up and record what is said in those rooms.[2] It turns out that MIT is exploring adding AI capabilities provided by Ambient.ai.
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- If you weren’t on campus this summer, then something you didn’t see – perhaps by design – was the installation of hundreds of small eyeball-shaped surveillance cameras.
- Building 1 alone now has 6-7 cameras per floor and The Tech has reported on the locations of more than 500 others.[1] Cameras point towards faculty members’ offices and bathroom entrances.
- Some are so close to faculty offices that their microphones could reasonably be expected to pick up and record what is said in those rooms.[2] It turns out that MIT is exploring adding AI capabilities provided by Ambient.ai.
Sources: Mit