Because self-learning capabilities are becoming more and more common in the surveillance arena, the paradigm of intelligent software is gradually replacing surveillance. Traditional definitions of surveillance involve tracking a person's movements. Governments have made significant investments in building up surveillance systems all around the world. There is no one to watch over the millions of cameras all the time. To save millions of lives, artificial intelligence (AI) has the ability to process each frame and provide a real-time analysis. In order to achieve a variety of policy objectives, some of which are lawful, some of which violate human rights, and some of which fall into a gray area, many states are implementing advanced AI surveillance technologies to map, track, and control people.
Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia are among the autocratic or semi-autocratic nations that are utilizing AI-based technology for widespread surveillance. Liberal governments, on the other hand, are rejecting the notion of deploying it on the pretext of privacy protection. In order to lower risk, the European Commission wants to tightly regulate AI. One of their goals is to outlaw "black box" AI programs, which are unintelligible to humans. Building public trust is the primary goal; creating turmoil is not the goal. If applied responsibly, AI seems to benefit humanity.
Whether these technological advances are counterintuitive to humans is the fundamental question that emerges in the midst of global privacy crises. Countries all across the world are focusing on the moral guidelines for monitoring. Every year, as AI technology advances in strength, it will become more essential to regulate it.