AI4Citizens: Use Case Description and Analysis

Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for crowd monitoring can help law enforcement officers and related authorities identify threats to public safety more efficiently, support human operators in making quicker, more informed decisions, improve response times and reduce workload. Yet, AI-enhanced surveillance raises critical ethical, societal, and human rights considerations. The AI4citizens: Responsible AI for Citizen Safety in Future Smart Cities project, funded by the Research Council of Norway, brings together a multidisciplinary team to explore how an AI system for crowd monitoring and anomaly detection can be designed and deployed responsibly by anonymizing CCTV footage.