In 2015, I co authored a chapter in Transpolitica on the topic of cyborgization. Back then it seemed ridiculous, and no one wanted to take seriously this possibility. Now it's 11 years later, and we have a new article showing the ICE and Homeland Security are adopting cyber glasses. Cyber glasses are AI augmented glasses, which turns the agent into an augmented cyborg.
I call this process cyborgization. And it's not a surprise at all. In fact, I would expect that in the future, law enforcement and feds will have compute dominance. That means they'll have cyborg capabilities far beyond what any civilian has. It will not just be cyber glasses. The good use cases of cyborgization, result in higher quality intelligence, higher quality information, and decision support. This decision support role is basically what Palantir is doing now with AI.
This ability is not exclusive to the feds. Cyborgization is now widespread. Anyone with AI, OpenClaw, Hermes, Meta Glasses
has some version of this. Done right, everyone will have better decision support. The question is will it be done right? It can also be done very wrong. Te article basically calls it the worst case scenario, but police already use body camera, and this if done right, can protect more people from police brutality than it hurts.
This level of surveillance, was also predicted over 10 years ago. The sousveillance was predicted as well. This could go very wrong, because agents are only as good as the users of them. And not every user of agents has the agenda to make life better. What should the regulations be? In any case, the expectation should be that law enforcement and the government will have access to the most advanced models, with the most compute. I would not be surprised if Mythos for example is the sort of model law enforcement would use. Law enforcement also has Palantir, but we also have to know law enforcement aren't the only people who want to do good and who need higher quality information. While law enforcement may get this technology first, it's important to develop open source models, low barriers to access, so that everyone in society has a chance to rise above involuntary ignorance, as this as important as having libraries.
Reference
https://gizmodo.com/ices-smart-glasses-are-a-worst-case-scenario-2000749003