#Surveillance Robot

[mila-violet]

Athena: India’s 1st AI-Powered autonomous security robot

Meet Athena, the super-intelligent surveillance robot redefining security and protection. Armed with cutting-edge AI and advanced features, Athena stands vigilant, safeguarding your industries, shops, malls, and more, 24/7, without ever blinking an eye.

Beyond Automation: Athena is A Cognitive Security Guardian

Forget about basic, automated robots simply traversing predetermined paths. Athena, an autonomous security robot, elevates the game with its intelligent brain. Powered by cutting-edge AI algorithms, Athena actively analyzes its surroundings, distinguishing genuine threats from harmless occurrences. It offers real-time anomaly detection, facial recognition, and behavior analysis rolled into one vigilant defender.

Moreover, Athena doesn’t rely solely on movement. Its keen eye, powered by facial recognition technology, can identify authorized personnel, flag suspicious individuals, and even track their movements. Athena recognizes a known offender on-site and immediately alerts authorities, preventing crime before it happens.

Unrelenting Vigilance: Athena Never Sleeps, Never Blinks

Unlike human guards, Athena operates 24/7, fully autonomous, tirelessly patrolling your premises. Athena’s 360-degree panoramic vision is powered by ultra-high-definition cameras that capture everything. It can identify and track individuals, detect suspicious activity, and even recognize faces with unmatched accuracy, leaving no room for blind spots or lapses in security. Whether your concerns lie in industrial facilities, commercial spaces, or sensitive environments, Athena stands guard, unwavering and ever-vigilant.

See Clearly, Even in Darkness:

Crystal-clear vision is crucial for effective surveillance. Athena’s high-definition cameras capture sharp images and video, even in low-light conditions. This ensures accurate identification and incident documentation, providing invaluable evidence for investigations.

This exceptional clarity translates to several crucial benefits:

Accurate Identification: No more blurry figures lost in the shadows. Athena can zoom in, identifying individuals with remarkable precision, day or night. This allows for swift and confident decision-making during security incidents.

Detailed Incident Documentation: Gone are the days of inconclusive footage. Athena’s recordings provide irrefutable evidence, capturing every detail with stunning clarity, even in low-light situations. This is invaluable for investigations, aiding in apprehending perpetrators and establishing clear timelines of events.

Deterrence & Peace of Mind: The mere presence of a watchful eye, even in darkness, acts as a powerful deterrent. Knowing Athena sees all, potential intruders think twice, reducing the risk of criminal activity. This translates to a greater sense of security and peace of mind for you and your property.

Athena doesn’t let the darkness become a security blind spot. Its advanced night vision technology ensures vigilance around the clock, safeguarding your assets and providing you with clear evidence, whenever and wherever it’s needed.

Silent Guardian, Swift Response:

Athena navigates diverse environments with agility, its silent operation ensuring discretion. But don’t be fooled by the quiet demeanor. Athena can react swiftly if a threat is detected, deterring intruders with clear audio warnings or escalating to remote intervention. This two-way communication allows for immediate response to critical situations.

Should a threat be detected, Athena doesn’t hesitate. Its response is immediate and multifaceted:

Clear Audio Warnings: A firm, authoritative voice booms from her speakers, deterring trespassers and issuing clear instructions. Athena’s command echoed through the night, instantly alerting intruders to their presence and potential consequences.

Escalation to Remote Intervention: If warnings go unheeded, Athena seamlessly escalates the situation. Through two-way communication, she relays critical information to remote security personnel, allowing for a swift and coordinated response. Imagine a silent guardian instantly connecting with human backup, ensuring no threat remains unchecked.

This unique blend of silent operation and swift action makes Athena an invaluable asset. It can discreetly monitor your property, deter crime before it happens, and then react swiftly and decisively when necessary, ensuring the safety of your assets and personnel. Athena is the guardian who whispers unseen but strikes like lightning when needed.

More than Just a Robot:

Athena is not just a security robot; it’s an investment in the future. By automating routine patrols and leveraging real-time face recognition, Athena frees up human resources for more strategic tasks, optimizing security infrastructure. This future technology empowers organizations to allocate personnel effectively and focus on proactive security measures.

A Future-Proof Solution:

The world of threats is constantly evolving. Athena, however, is designed to adapt. Regular software updates keep its AI sharp, ensuring it stays ahead of emerging threats and integrates seamlessly with future security advancements. This makes Athena a reliable partner for long-term security needs, offering peace of mind in a dynamic world.

The Robotic Revolution is Here:

Athena’s arrival signifies a pivotal moment in the robotic revolution. As commercial and industrial robots continue redefining various sectors, autonomous security robots like Athena are poised to transform how we safeguard our assets and people. Investing in Athena is an investment in peace of mind, efficiency, and proactive security. The future of security is ready to redefine the future of surveillance & security.

Are you curious what Athena, the AI-powered surveillance & security robot, can truly do? Click here to the above exclusive video and delve deep into the skills that make Athena an unstoppable security force.

[clonerightsagenda]

I don't care what kind of hotshot future surgeons they have, I can't believe that they replaced all the specials' bones with synthetics, for multiple reasons (some would be difficult and dangerous to remove without damaging important tissue, you need your pelvis/sternum/spine for marrow production, 16 year olds aren't done growing although idk if Dr. Cable cares about that) but now I am imagining 35 year old Tally alone in the wild with the world gone to shit yet again because of and despite of her best efforts staring at her own cast-off 16-year-old skull.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The REAL AI automation threat to workers

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

Long before the current wave of AI hype, we were being groomed for automation panics with misleading stories. Remember this one? "'Truck driver' is the most common job in America. Self-driving trucks are just around the corner. How can we prevent America's army of truckers from turning into a howling mob when the robots steal their jobs?"

https://futurism.com/millions-of-jobs-are-at-risk-but-their-loss-could-be-for-the-greater-good

It was absolute nonsense. First of all, "truck driver" isn't a particularly common job in America! The BLS lumps together all cargo vehicle drivers under a single classification. The category error here was thinking that every delivery van driver, furniture mover, and courier is behind the wheel of a big rig, cracking wise on a CB radio as they tear up the interstate.

But what about automation threats? It's possible that if we redesigned the interstates to give 16 wheelers their own separated lanes, and then set them to following one another, that they could traverse long distances in that way. Congratulations, you've just invented a shitty, failure-prone train.

"Shitty train AI" does not threaten the job of the vast number of people the BLS classifies as "truck drivers." For one thing, "shitty train AI" isn't going to pilot a UPS van around the streets of a busy city with other road users. Sure, a few robotaxi companies have bamboozled city governments into conscripting the city's residents into an uncontrolled murderbot experiment. These are not going well:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/9-key-leaders-depart-gms-cruise-amid-ongoing-investigation-into-san-francisco-incident/

More than $100b has been set on fire chasing the robotaxi dream, and the result is most charitably described as a technological curiosity, requiring 1.5 high-waged remote technicians to replace each low-waged driver:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

But even if we could perfect this technology, robots still wouldn't replace all those "truckers" who drive delivery vans (to say nothing of moving vans!). The hard part of driving a UPS van isn't just getting it from place to place – it's getting the parcel into the place. The robo-van would still need at least one person to get the parcel from the back of the van and into the reception desk, porch, or other delivery zone. It's not going to fire those parcels at your door with a catapult. It's also not going to deliver them by drones. Drone delivery is another one of those historical curiosities, capable of delivering a very narrow range of parcels, under even narrower circumstances:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/comprehensive-sex-ed/#droned

If all UPS delivered was lightweight, non-fragile rectangular parcels ordered by people with large, unobstructed back yards, then sure. Congrats, you've just created the world's least-useful parcel delivery service!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/amazon-drone-delivery-service-seeks-faa-approval-to-launch-in-2022/

All that said, the big rig drivers probably don't need to worry about robots stealing their jobs. It's not even clear that "shitty train" is within our technological grasp, but even if it is, there's yet another problem with the AI automation trucker jobpocalypse: "trucker" is already one of the worst jobs in America:

https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/

It's hard to overstate just how fucking terrible it is to be a trucker. Truckers are trapped in abusive debt holes by their employers – who misclassify their workforce as "contractors" in a bid to sidestep labor law. Shriven of any labor rights, truckers are forced into the most ghastly, body-destroying, family-wrcking, financially precarious existence imaginable.

You can drive a truck for years, give almost all of the money you earn back to your employer (who denies that you're their employee) to pay back the usurious loan for your truck. Then, your employer can underschedule for shifts so that you miss a loan payment, and they can repo your truck and keep the six-figure repayment you've already made to them, leaving you destitute.

They can force you to work for hours – days! – without pay while you wait for loading and dispatch. They can make you drive long past the point of safety, then, if (when) you get into a wreck, they can fine you for not taking the mandated rest breaks.

Now, these drivers aren't about to be replaced by AI – but that doesn't mean that AI won't affect their jobs. Commercial drivers are among the most heavily surveilled workers in the country. Amazon's drivers (whom Amazon misclassifies as subcontractors) have their eyeballs monitored by AI;

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

AIs monitor the voices of the (primarily Black, primarily female) workforce at Arise – homeworkers who field customer service calls for blue-chip companies like Carnival Cruises and Disney. They're listening for unruly children or pets in the background, and workers who fail to muffle these dependents lose the contracts they have to pay to train for:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/22/paperback-writer/#toothless

And AI monitors the conduct of workers on temp-work apps. If a worker is dispatched to a struck workplace and refuses to cross the picket-line, the AI boss fires you and blacklists you from future jobs for refusing to robo-scab:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

Writing in The Guardian, Steven Greenhouse describes the AI-enabled workplace, where precarious, often misclassified workers are monitored, judged, and fined by algorithms:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/07/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-workers

Whether it's the robot that gets you disciplined for sending an email with the word "union" in it or the robot that takes money out of your paycheck if you take a bathroom break, AI has come for the workplace with a vengeance.

Here's a supreme irony: nearly all of the beneficial applications for AI require that AI be used to help workers, not replace them, which is absolutely not how AI is used in the workplace. An AI that helps radiologists by giving them a second opinion might help them find tumors on x-rays, but that's a tool that reduces the number of scans a radiologist processes in a shift, by making them go back and reconsider the scans they've already processed:

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

But AI's sales pitch is not "Buy an AI tool and increase your costs while increasing your accuracy." The pitch for AI is "buy and AI and save money by firing workers." Given how bad AIs are at replacing humans, this is a bad deal all around, both for the worker who loses their job and the customer who gets the substandard product the AI makes.

There is a very limited slice of applications where an AI could make a lot of money for a company that deploys it, without costing that company anything when the AI screws up. For example, AI is a really good tool for fraud! Rather than paying people to churn out millions of variations on a phishing email, you can get an AI to do it. If the AI writes a bad phishing email, it's OK, since nearly all recipients of even good phishing emails delete them. What's more, no one will fine you or publish an op-ed demanding that your board of directors fire you if you buy an incompetent AI to commit fraud. Fraud is a high-value, low-consequence environment for using AI.

Another one of those applications is managing precarious workers who don't have labor rights. If the AI unfairly docks your worker's wages, or forces them to work until they injure themselves or others, or decides that their eyeball movements justify firing them, those workers have no recourse. That's the whole point of pretending that your employees are contractors: so you can violate labor law with impunity!

But that's not the ironic part. The ironic part is that "being a shitty boss" is the one AI application that companies are willing to increase their net spending on. No one buys an eyeball-monitoring AI so they can fire a manager. This is the one place where AI is there to augment, rather than replace, an employee.

This makes AI-based bossware subtly different from other forms of Taylorism, the "scientific management" fad of the early 20th century that saw management consultants choreographing the postures and movements of workers to satisfy the aesthetic fetishes of their employers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

The pseudoscientific cod-ergonomics of the 1900s was demeaning and even dangerous, but it wasn't automated, and if it increased worker output, this was incidental to the real purpose of making workers move like the machine-cogs their bosses reassured themselves they were:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

Every AI panic is a way of deflecting attention from the real, grimy, here-and-now ways that AI is destroying our lives by demanding that we entertain nonsensical science fiction claims about large, shiny existential risks that AI might present in the future.

The "X-risk" of the spicy autocomplete chatbot waking up and using its newfound sentience to turn us all into paperclips is nonsense. Adding words to the plausible sentence generator doesn't turn it into a superintelligence for the same reason that selectively breeding faster horses doesn't lead to locomotives:

https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/

But there is a way that AI could destroy the human race! The carbon footprint and water consumption associated with training and operating large-scale models are significant contributors to the climate emergency, which threatens the habitability of the only planet in the known universe capable of sustaining human life:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2023/04/14/ais-unsustainable-water-use-how-tech-giants-contribute-to-global-water-shortages/

Likewise, AI isn't going to replace you at work. But it's already augmenting your shitty boss's ability to rip you off, torment you, maim you and even kill you in order to eke out a few more basis points for the next shareholder report.

Science fiction is a fun and useful way to tell parables about our current technologies. But it's not a roadmap for the future. The fact that sf writers like me found AIs as useful measures to describe Earth's dominant artificial life form – the limited liability corporation – doesn't mean that superhuman AIs should – or can – be created.

Back the Kickstarter for the DRM-free audiobook of The Bezzle, read by Tumblr's own @wilwheaton!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no

Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

[ghostpajamas]

thinking so seriously about the hs sona, im afraid

[petterwass]

Always funny to see what my little robot maid thinks my apartment looks like

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Did you know you can do admech however you want?

Its true!

Some are weird centipede adjacent (Cawl)

Some look like dreadnoughts (Magos Prime)

Wings? Go for it, wing style jump packs exist both in DH and now on table top

Claws? Again those funky skitarii

The flesh is weak. The flesh is also boring. Go nuts. Make some fucked up cyborgs. You don't even need to give them deep motivation beyond "you know what would be neat?"

And, after all, there was the Horse Inquisitor. Nothing the admech do to themselves can be as weird as the Horse Inquisitor (Golesh Constantine Pheppos Heldane)

I interpreted the first line of this ask in a whole other direction. Anyway.

I agree, we need more weird and zany techpriest bodies. You know how esoteric and specific PC builders can get at their upper echelons? AdMech are basically that vibe distilled and splashed across the pages of a religious text. More cool ones, more creepy ones. We need… biblically accurate AdMech.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

“that rat’s looking at me kinda weird…..” “oh that’s not a rat.” THEN WHAT IS IT MARK????

[idoodle2draw-marquer]

Loverboy Venus~

revenge on @infinitygalileo of its object head sona, Venus !!

so like, i went a little overkill on this, with the FXs and ??? IDK HOW TO FEEL ABOUT IT BUT !!!!!!!! ✨️ V E N U S ✨️

i really like it surrounded in pink though i will say~

[cloudsofunrelatedcriminalsearth]

CLOUDS OF UNRELATED CRIMINALS ATTACKING PLANET EARTH

[nestedneons]

By mobotato

Audio on

[mikopol]

Musical inspiration: Apocryphos, "Heartsick " (album "Against Civilization", 2020)

[portalgunslinger]

trrrying to learn robot character design. im normal about them

[coulsonlives]

I'm like five minutes into Ron's Gone Wrong and this has gotta be, hands-down, the most dystopian kid's movie I've ever seen

[eggnogablog]

#post that has it all #company that unleashed dangerous robots into the world doesn't want them to be used dangerously #people who see a robot and think DOG #an absolute scholar who says you shouldn't smash it but chase it with a can of expandable foam

[e-n-t-r-o-p-i-c-f-r-o-g]

Electric eye, in the sky

Feel my stare, always there

There's nothing you can do about it

Develop and expose

I feed upon your every thought

And so my power grows

I'm made of metal

My circuits gleam

I am perpetual

I keep the country clean

[johngarrison1517]

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