Why Everyone is Stuck with AI Surveillance (Except Chicago)

⚡ Upgrade your brain with The Hustle newsletter: https://clickhubspot.com/538d7a ShotSpotter promised to use AI to detect gunfire, dispatch police faster, and make cities safer. Instead, it quietly put millions of Americans under constant audio surveillance, triggered thousands of false alarms, and became one of the most controversial government tech contractors in the country. In this video, we travel to Chicago — one of ShotSpotter’s biggest customers — to investigate how the system actually works, why so many alerts never lead to real crimes, and how internal reclassification of audio turned a safety product into a legal and ethical nightmare. This is the story of how flawed data, lobbying, and surveillance tech collided — and why once a city buys into systems like this, it’s almost impossible to walk away. Recommended video: https://youtu.be/76vm5lj-3FE?si=52KNSSx7Y_Hl7Nt2 -- Follow us LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/slidebean Instagram: http://instagram.com/slidebean Caya X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cayahere LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caya/ -- 📚 Sources & References Associated Press — ShotSpotter & Police AI https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-algorithm-technology-police-crime-7e3345485aa668c97606d4b54f9b6220 Wired — Secret Sensor Locations Leak https://www.wired.com/story/shotspotter-secret-sensor-locations-leak/ ACLU — Four Problems With ShotSpotter https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/four-problems-with-the-shotspotter-gunshot-detection-system IPVM — ShotSpotter Accuracy Report https://ipvm.com/reports/shotspotter-accuracy The Record — ShotSpotter Inaccuracies in NYC https://therecord.media/police-shotspotter-inaccurate-new-york Wikipedia — Killing of Adam Toledo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Adam_Toledo Sen. Ed Markey — DHS OIG Letter on ShotSpotter https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/shotspotter_dhs_oig_letter_51424.pdf Vice — Police Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence https://www.vice.com/en/article/police-are-telling-shotspotter-to-alter-evidence-from-gunshot-detecting-ai/ East Bay Express — Illegal Lobbying in Oakland https://eastbayexpress.com/shotspotter-lobbied-oakland-officials-in-apparent-violation-of-law-1/ Oregon Public Broadcasting — ShotSpotter Lobbying https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/07/shotspotter-convinced-portland-spend-big-controversial-gunshot-detection-technology/ Prism Reports — Chicago Ends ShotSpotter https://prismreports.org/2024/12/02/how-chicago-organizers-rid-the-city-of-shotspotter/ ABC7 Chicago — Chicago Dismantles ShotSpotter https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shotspotter-contract-ends-sunday-city-begin-dismantling-gunshot-detection-technology-monday/15341343/ #ShotSpotter #AIPolicing #SurveillanceTech #PrivacyRights #PoliceTechnology #TechEthics #AIandLaw #Chicago #CivilLiberties #BigBrother #Slidebean #InvestigativeTech #FutureOfPolicing