A study of 20,000 computer vision papers and patents show the technology is mostly developed to do one thing: surveillance of human bodies. The authors of the study also found that it’s common for AI researchers to use language that obfuscates what the technology actually does, like “object detection,” which literally dehumanizes people. 

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