Dallas School District Installs AI Surveillance to Monitor Student Behavior

The New American ^ | May 28, 2023 | Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Here’s a chilling news item reported by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity:

Last week, the Dallas Independent School District was boasting about its new pilot project, undertaken along with the company Davista. The pilot project, the school district says, uses AI to extensively monitor each student and then sound the alarm if a student deviates from his “baseline” behavior.

There are so many disturbing and dystopian aspects to this information.

First, using AI — artificial intelligence — to monitor student behavior is allowing an incredibly complex and advanced algorithm (which is really all AI is at this point) to record children’s behavior, removing the human element altogether. The “alarm” that the surveillance system will sound is triggered not by a concerned parent or teacher or administrator, but by a computer that targets, tracks, and predicts the future behavior of children under its never-blinking electronic eye.

Anyone who pays attention to technology knows that the rapidly expanding use and misuse of AI is a topic of intense debate, with some experts in that field expressing concern that the technology is advancing too quickly and could some day — very soon — develop a means of decision-making beyond the control or coding of a human being.

Imagine a scenario in which the AI surveillance system of which the Dallas Independent School District is “boasting about” develops a “virus” or “Trojan horse,” and all the images it has recorded it then uploads to the dark web or some other equally ominous database. Would the apologies of the administration of the school district be sufficient to satisfy the concerns or squelch the rage of parents whose children now have their images available to anyone with access to the internet? In a cost-benefit analysis of this project,...

[metmom]

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Big brother is watching you.

[proust]

"sound the alarm if a student deviates from his “baseline” behavior."

[dfwgator]

We don’t need no thought control.

[rigelkentaurus]

Kids will be working overtime to make this AI blow up, I know I would. Give it a baseline and then intentionally deviate to watch it blow a fuse. This school should have more cases to chase than time in the universe.

[wally_bert]

Dissenters in No. 6’s Village practiced jamming.

Phony escape attempts and other schemes.

It’s Your Funeral episode.

[ConservativeInPA]

sound the alarm if a student deviates from his “baseline” behavior.

Government indoctrination centers have always been about herding and conformity. Now it’s going to be on steroids so they can program drones. Just what America needs; no ingenuity, no innovation, no creativity. Force the chudren to color their trees green, damnit. That’s diversity.

[Socon-Econ]

Will help to protect teachers and peaceful students from thug students.

[mewzilla]

From 2020 on Davista...

https://www.securityinfowatch.com/security-executives/article/21159399/davista-takes-security-ai-beyond-video-surveillance

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Will help to protect teachers and peaceful students from thug students.

No offense, but I sincerely doubt that. They could protect teachers and peaceful students already by ENFORCING THE LAW and ABOLISHING GUN-FREE ZONES, where 98% of mass-shootings occur.

This is to gather more detailed info for their NSA dossiers.

Government is the greediest, most corrupt and murderous force on Earth. Nothing government does is for your benefit, especially when they tell you it is.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

"School safety" being used as cover to field test their gear for fine tuning in the hopes of deployment against the rest of us out in public. They're really hoping on eventually landing a glorious no-bid contract with the feds. That's what's going on there.

 

 

[PGR88]

What happens when they find out its picking-out the black students?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It won’t. It’s programmed to breed anarcho-tyranny.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

I saw an interview with the DISD superintendent - real leftist battleaxe - grousing about the legislature (which is in session) focusing on school security and how it would divert budget money away from hiring more teachers. Yeah, no joke, she said that. Then they turn around and do this. Guarantee they ransacked the maintenance budget down to nothing while jumping off into hairbrained stunts like this.

 

 

[HartleyMBaldwin]

All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall.

[Texan5]

“Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!”

[A strike]

“We don’t need no thought control.”
But we’ve gotten it anyway.
Prescient.

-fJRoberts-

[minnesota_bound]

Liberals/socialists: There is much too much independent thinking going on!

[Svartalfiar]

Every class should have a camera in it. Teachers could handle students better I bet.

Also, parents could be given a login to see/hear their kids’ class and that’d likely help keep teachers in line too!