The Battle Over AI Surveillance at the Paris Olympics

france's plan to use ai to help surveil the 2024 paris olympics has some groups saying it would turn the country into a “dystopian surveillance state”

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It’s been a busy past few weeks in France. Days of strikes and violent protests spurred by a pension reform have left the country’s cities strewn with uncollected trash piles, smashed storefront windows, and firebombed cars. Most in the media and general public have little on their minds beyond the now-infamous “réforme des ret…