They are developing AI to identify children's mental illness using footage of your kids on playgrounds

>“Three UK universities are developing a system to monitor children's mental health by studying footage of playground behaviour.<br><br>The system uses AI to track a child's activities and predict potential mental health problems such as anxiety or depression…. The project has raised privacy and surveillance concerns.<br><br>…"Parents must give written consent allowing their children to be filmed. <br><br>>…The … AI system … reviews the footage to identify "behaviours such as isolation, fighting, or withdrawal." ….<br><br>….<br><br>>…- "Games such as "Tag" or "Hide and Seek" will be studied for signs of "aggression" or "anxiety".<br><br>>…- Even a child's walking style will be studied with steps such as "speed" or "stride length" being used to determine "how much energy they share with their peers."<br><br>>…- Children who are "more aggressive" or "more submissive" will be identified and tracked as well.<br><br>….<br><br>>…- Behaviour such as "shyness" or "outgoingness" will also be identified and "assessed."<br><br>….<br><br>>…- The AI system will also track … whether children tend to "gravitate towards each other, and how they interact with one another."<br><br>….<br><br>>…- Another … goal is to "understand how the 'emotional tone' of a group of children can affect the interactions of individual children." ….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>>…- The system … will also track a child's "activity levels" in the playground. ….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>>…- Another … goal is to "understand how … friendly or unfriendly" a child is towards their peers…. The AI system will also track "how much laughter" a child produces during a game…. <br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>…. What really gets me is that the only children they will be monitoring are the ones whose parents gave consent… they are going to be monitoring how the consented kids interact with the non-consented kids… essentially every kid in the playground will be monitored…<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….<br><br>….