Sao Paulo, March 17, 2026 (AFP) - Sao Paulo AI policing nabs criminals, and a few innocents

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2026-03-17

In the heart of Sao Paulo, a "prisonometer" keeps a live tally of people jailed due to Latin America's largest AI facial-recognition system, but its successes have been marred by mistaken arrests. The digital counter stands outside the Smart Sampa monitoring center, where dozens of police officers watch images streaming in from 40,000 cameras in the Brazilian megalopolis. Latin America's largest city has long battled high rates of crime, and the......

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