Is AI in your school's future?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is moving at warp speed from futuristic to trending. TrendWatching's latest missive features 7-Eleven's use of facial recognition in its stores in Thailand. 7-Eleven is using facial recognition to customize its marketing in-store.Now combine the 7-Eleven story with this item from the U.K.'s Daily Mail and you have Emotional Surveillance, a trend that is just now getting going due to the convergence of AI and behavioral science. How long until school security begins including emotional surveillance of arriving students to detect risk of suicide, anger outbursts, or worse? Coming soon to a school near you.