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Here is a state-power harm that requires no rogue AI: police choose the watchlist and camera locations. In its 2024–25 annual report, London’s Met counts 3.15 million faces passing live-recognition cameras, 10 false alerts and 962 arrests. Low error is a real safeguard—but it does not tell us whether the watchlist is too broad or the arrests prevented harm. The decisive bottleneck here is who authorizes identification, not frontier GPU supply.

“10 false alerts from the ~ 3,147,436 faces that passed the LFR cameras.”