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Will Artificial Intelligence Improve Airport Security?
H4 Solutions ^ | 09/11/2019 | Kelly Hoggan

Posted on 09/13/2019 4:05:38 AM PDT by BigKahuna

No sane person enjoys standing in an airport security line. In some cases, especially when you’re late for your flight, the wait to get through security can seem like hours or even days. And wait times to make it through airport security have indeed gone up over the last 20 or so years in response to terrorism threats. Fortunately developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are beginning to make it easier to get through airport security.

Airports, airlines and government security agencies generally must balance two competing objectives. The first is to ensure that robust and effective aviation security programs are in place to protect air travelers. The second is to also ensure large numbers of travelers can make it through security screening and to their flights with as little fuss and inconvenience as possible. These days, AI may provide the answer as to just how both objectives can be met.

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For airports, such technological improvements mean that many more passengers per hour – up to 900 hourly, in fact -- can be sent through security lines than current technologies allow.

So what does all this mean for air travelers? With far less time spent waiting to make it through airport security lines, flyers won’t need to check in so early for their flights.

Also, AI could make it possible for airline passengers to check in both themselves and their luggage, receive their tickets and then rapidly pass through security without removing laptops, shoes, belts, jackets or much of anything else.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: biometrics; security; technology; travel
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I guess artificial intelligence could... as long as there's some real intelligence controlling it. If not, Skynet will be smiling happily. ;-)
1 posted on 09/13/2019 4:05:38 AM PDT by BigKahuna
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Firstly you will never convince me that Google or Facebook or any of them actually uses “AI”. They have lists of people they don’t like who they then watch and when you complain about how you have been treated they claim there really was not a human involved. Bullsh*t. Secondly, what are they gonna do when the AI tells them the “woman in the Burka” is not a woman at all? Are they gonna confront “her” or are they gonna let them pass like the woman at the desk that let Atta on the plane “because she didn’t want to be accused of racism?”


2 posted on 09/13/2019 4:14:04 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: BigKahuna

If it profiles young male muslims...


3 posted on 09/13/2019 4:15:46 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: 2banana

No need. Muslim males never fly, they will be loading the cargo onto your aircraft.


4 posted on 09/13/2019 4:21:42 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: BigKahuna
"Will Artificial Intelligence Improve Airport Security?"

Only if you believe that computers never screw up.

5 posted on 09/13/2019 4:25:42 AM PDT by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: BigKahuna

It’s artificial, but it’s not intelligence. Intelligence is a characteristic of humans. It’s a computer program containing instructions to be carried out. It will do that faithfully.

It does not have intuition, gut feelings, sneaking suspicions, or the feeling that something is fishy. Humans do.

You need both humans and programs, working together. One complements the other. No other solution will produce the desired results.


6 posted on 09/13/2019 4:31:46 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: I want the USA back

“It’s artificial, but it’s not intelligence. Intelligence is a characteristic of humans. It’s a computer program containing instructions to be carried out. It will do that faithfully.

It does not have intuition, gut feelings, sneaking suspicions, or the feeling that something is fishy. Humans do.

You need both humans and programs, working together. One complements the other. No other solution will produce the desired results.”

Well said!


7 posted on 09/13/2019 4:55:27 AM PDT by BigKahuna
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To: BigKahuna

Perhaps they should solve the intelligence problem before layering on the artificial part.


8 posted on 09/13/2019 5:03:30 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

I was taking a class in “Programming in FORTRAN 4” back in 1971 and they were talking about AI even back then when it occurred to me that a necessary prerequisite to AI would naturally be “Artificial Stupidity.”


9 posted on 09/13/2019 5:09:37 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: American in Israel

“Perhaps they should solve the intelligence problem before layering on the artificial part.”

Don’t worry. I’m sure TSA has the intelligence part down pat by now. ;-)


10 posted on 09/13/2019 5:16:35 AM PDT by BigKahuna
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To: I want the USA back
It does not have intuition, gut feelings, sneaking suspicions, or the feeling that something is fishy.

And never will. A lot of really brainy people don't seem to possess those, either - or they wouldn't 'believe' so extravagantly of the potential of AI.
11 posted on 09/13/2019 5:27:35 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: BigKahuna

By the time the algorithms are tweaked to avoid RAAAAACISM and Islamophobia? HELL NO!


12 posted on 09/13/2019 6:56:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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And if you try to avoid either you probably end up on some anti-social list. Count me in!😁
13 posted on 09/13/2019 7:40:34 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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We’re all Deplorables.


14 posted on 09/13/2019 7:42:07 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Not that long ago people scoffed at the idea of humans flying across the Atlantic and were sure machines would never be able to arithmetic or sort things. It would be wise to avoid making negative predictions regarding the technologies of the future.


15 posted on 09/13/2019 7:42:25 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: wastoute
Some are armed deplorables. 😬
16 posted on 09/13/2019 7:47:57 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: GingisK

There have been a number of technological “advances” in firearms that went no where. It’s like centuries of perfecting them have achieved a final form that just can’t be improved. Remember Remington’s “Electronic Igniton”. I almost bought one. Remember “caseless ammo”? That one sure went nowhere. I keep wondering just what a real tech advance in firearms might even be but I guess I don’t have much imagination.


17 posted on 09/13/2019 8:03:47 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: GingisK

I’m sure there are lots of great and useful discoveries ahead. I don’t hate or fear AI itself - I find it fascinating.

But it requires a very reductionist/mechanistic concept of human consciousness to believe that an AI will ever be anything like human intelligence. I can’t squeeze myself - or dumb myself down - into that kind of concept; it frightens me that some people can and do. It also frightens me to think of some of the proposed uses to which they may put the technology.


18 posted on 09/13/2019 8:32:05 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

Skynet just might be coming. There are those stupid enough to put something like that into service.


19 posted on 09/13/2019 9:18:07 AM PDT by GingisK
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John McCarthy - Turing Award winner, and the man who invented the term ‘artificial intelligence’ - once argued seriously that machine intelligence could one day replace judges in courts of law.

Even human beings can be intellectually brilliant and very unwise.


20 posted on 09/13/2019 9:34:33 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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