00:00AI-enabled cameras monitoring polling areas in real time, detecting crowd buildups or suspicious
00:06movements. Police equipped with body-worn cameras recording everyone near polling stations.
00:11This is the plan for the West Bengal elections. It's projected to be the most extensive security
00:17deployment in India's electoral history. The Election Commission of India has even set up
00:23a central AI control room. It will monitor tens of thousands of polling stations. Authorities say
00:29it is necessary to ensure security after so many cases of election violence. But multiple cameras
00:36even set up in voting booths also raise questions about surveillance. Even more, an AI algorithm used
00:43to clean up voting lists has sparked outrage. The ECI used AI to flag discrepancies between voter lists
00:50and their documents. Authorities said they wanted to erase names of duplicate and dead voters. But
00:57critics say millions of people were wrongly removed due to spelling differences in names or unrealistic
01:03criteria the AI used. They also say specific communities like Muslims, Matawas and Rajbangshis
01:09were targeted. Still, despite the dispute, the ECI continued to use the software.
01:15Do you think AI can make elections safer?
01:18Do you think AI can make elections safer?
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