Re: environmental surveillance (call me paranoid)

These things have been technically feasible for a long time
The movies often capture and project future scenarios,
do you think Julius Verne
https://www.britannica.com/story/did-jules-verne-invent-the-submarine
knew that someone was designing submarines?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_submarines

Now this Technology is becoming rather popular because it is useful and
very fun (if not used maliciously) and can be made easily, inexpensively

Developed in labs where they do not exactly say what they do (very common)
and deployed without anyone knowing.  There is no legislation to say it
cannot be done and deployed
afaik
especially if the intent is not malicious (survey the crop etc)

I expect a DYI kit to be available online at some point (make your own
fly/bird  drone)

With my engineer hat on, I think these are beautiful and open to creativity
(imagine feathers like this, flying style like this etc).
 As a paranoid citizen, I can only  keep my swimsuit tight on and wonder
where is the world heading

Philosophically, this brings the question of biological and natural reality
becoming mixed with artificial reality.

Psychologically, every time I see a bird perkin on my window sill I feel
alerted to the possibility
and wonder whether I should  seek counselling

 I just wanted to make a note of the eventuality




On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 3:37 PM ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <
metadataportals@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Technically, such surveillance technologies would fall under video
> surveillance, but I have no clue if current EU legislation covers such
> technologies. I have some scientific literature on drones for use in
> protected areas, but do not recall bird and insect like drones mentioned
> specifically.
>
> The movie Eye in the Sky (2015) shows use of a sophisticated drone
> disguised as a fly for audio and video surveillance. Whether this
> technology actually exists now is the question, but swarms of such
> miniature drones controlled by an central AI would be possible and could
> pose nightmare scenarios.
>
> Milton Ponson
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> On Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 10:23:18 PM AST, Paola Di Maio <
> paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I do not think thre is a law that can prevent people from buying
> surveillance gadgets freely
> https://www.analyticsinsight.net/the-advent-of-robotic-birds/
> https://spectrum.ieee.org/fly-robot-fly
>
> some are cute and highly sophisticated *move heads and wings like real
> birds'and insects
> being tested on beaches worldwide
> (better keep the swimsuit on at all times)
>
> implications for AI KR? (cant think of any)
>
>
>