The goal, CTA officials said, is to alert police quickly to any situation arising at the transit agency’s stations. Often the alert can be made in under a minute, they said.
A surveillance camera is mounted on a CTA Blue Line train Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, in Chicago. CHICAGO — The Chicago Transit Authority has begun testing technology that uses artificial intelligence to identify guns in its “L” stations.
ACLU Illinois spokesman Ed Yohnka said technology like ZeroEyes demands transparency from the CTA and could lay the groundwork for further intrusive technologies to be used. CTA cameras were marketed as a way to make the system safer, but now another technology needs to be added, he said. The department did say 626 instances of violent crime had been reported on the CTA this year through Aug. 27, up from 547 through the same time period last year.
The $200,000 ZeroEyes test run, which has been in place for about a month, will run through summer 2025 to start, CTA Vice President of Security Kevin Ryan said. The program uses the CTA’s existing cameras to detect guns once they have been exposed, and is now installed on more than 250 of the agency’s roughly 30,000 cameras, he said.
“One of the reasons I really like ZeroEyes is it has a human component to it,” he said. “It’s not relying on AI or computers to completely do the work.” The technology has been used by other transit agencies, including Philadelphia’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, which operates a metro, along with buses and regional rail.
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