The Real Victims of the AI Surveillance Panopticon? Crime Fiction Writers
TL;DR
Cameras on every corner, license plate readers and AI-driven video analysis have made the perfect murder close to impossible to stage. That turns into a craft problem for crime writers: a believable whodunnit now has to explain why phone records and surveillance footage did not identify the killer by page ten.
Nauti's Take
Crime writers are running a useful exercise by accident: constructing a murder that survives cameras, phone records and facial recognition means mapping where those systems actually have gaps. The opportunity for teams is to apply the same lens to their own data and check where coverage is genuinely complete.
The risk is that what reads as a plot problem in fiction is a question of error rates and access rights in daily operations, and no novel settles that.
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