First off, hello everyone this is my first post.
Now to the meat and potatoes. For the meat and potatoes I would like to give some general context. I am a trained anthropologist who focuses in the othering of people. In my research I have looked at all kinds of systems including medical and immigration systems. I am also heavily interested in the integration of engineering and other disciplines in the effort to create designs and systems that reduce human suffering.
This is where I have come to my research in AI and Implants. I have been looking at the journey of the technology of AI / computer ID since the late 2000’s and early 2010 with early camera dot tracking and sensor techs at the time. Now we have the progression of this technology to use AI systems, Lidar (in the case of things like FaceID especially), and other face marker technologies. This has been leading me to wondering about the effectiveness of AI systems and these technologies along with RFID in Implants or wearables as an alternative to Badges, Drivers Licenses, or other IDs. With the improvements in AI technology and Lidar technology I think it would be potentially viable. It could also be scaleable with tracking of a persons hand and a persons face as well as a persons Iris, fingerprint, or other biometric data.
I am wondering if this would be a viable solution to create secure payments, ID, and other things (assuming we could figure out a good solution for activation / deactivation for the chips and reprogramming). I of course see some serious potential flaws in this plan, namely that with using an implant, which is the fact that technology changes. There is also obviously heavy concerns of security and personal safe when it comes to these types of systems. I mean if there is a data breach of this data someone now has your face and potentially the chip data that was read.
I have been looking into it as a solution for a closed solution home security system (The AI would be located on a local server not connect to the internet or encrypted so that the information is not leaked) and the system would use the information you scan into the system as part of the access control to things like exterior doors, secure interior rooms, and safes or safe rooms. This system could including other additional metrics, besides the RFID and camera data / lidar camera data, to add additional security.
Of course this is all not new in terms of concepts relatively speaking, as spy films and action films have had technology like this shown for a long time where the user goes through a series of obstacles in order to get to the highly secure data (or whatever). So what I am wondering is what is the communities feelings on the progression of these technologies? How can we implement them in realistic and predictable ways? How could different types of implants be implemented in these systems to improve the way these systems improve personal and professional security? If the government implemented these kinds of changes of options, what would be the backlash? How do you implement these kinds of changes with the best results?
These are all the kinds of questions that I have been thinking about in designing a secure cabin in the woods (a project I might post here at some point or somewhere else) and when questions through my considerations of how people interact with the world around them as part of my continual understanding of the othering of people.
