Will AI end the human race? + Flock cameras puts innocent woman in jail

Our Take

Kim Komando's show usually traffics in tech news for a mass audience, so it's notable when that audience gets a direct, human-scale warning about license plate readers. Her conversation with Lindsey Brook Isaacs is the kind of story we keep seeing repeat across the country: a Flock Safety camera flags a plate, a cop treats the automated read as probable cause, and an innocent person ends up in handcuffs before anyone checks the actual facts. That's not a hypothetical edge case — it's the predictable result of software with real error rates being treated as infallible by officers under pressure to act fast.

The bigger AI-doom segment Komando leads with can feel abstract, but the ALPR story makes the stakes concrete. These cameras aren't just passively logging traffic; they're actively driving stops, searches, and arrests, often on the strength of a database match nobody independently verifies in the moment. When the system is wrong, the burden of proving your innocence falls on you, not on the vendor or the department that trusted a machine over due diligence.

We appreciate a mainstream outlet giving this airtime, because most people still don't know how many of these cameras are logging their plates every day. Check our map to see what's watching your neighborhood, and if a case like this makes you want to push back locally, our take-action page has concrete steps.