How Bay Area cities can leverage the power of AI to build safer, more secure communities

STORES HAVE BEEN closing in Oakland and San Francisco because of crime. Broad daylight robberies are continuing unabashed in Fremont. Car thefts and robberies in San Francisco have gone up in 2023. Other Bay Area cities have grievous crime stories to tell too. People are frustrated. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help here, and the cities should leverage it in a big way.

Real-time crime detection and prevention can be made possible by integrating generative AI with surveillance camera systems. Some of the technology is already in use, for different purposes.