Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Overfishing in the Southwest Atlantic

This piece critiques emerging surveillance technologies, including Flock’s audio-based detection and gunshot systems, arguing they are legally fraught, error-prone, and economically wasteful while failing to solve underlying social problems. It warns that advances in AI and signal processing will make audio/visual evidence less reliable due to deepfakes and synthetic voice reconstruction, eroding evidentiary standards. The author also contends that reliance on platforms like Palantir deskills policing, diverts resources, and exacerbates systemic issues, resulting in ineffective wide-area security strategies and harmful organizational outcomes.