Our interest in regulation came from our emerging sense of where the market was heading. A few months earlier, one of our sales teams had wanted to sell an AI solution that included facial-recognition services to the government of a country that lacked an independent judiciary and had a less than stellar track record for respecting human rights. The government wanted to deploy the service with cameras across its capital city. Our concern was that a government that flouted human rights could use the technology to follow anyone anywhere—or everyone everywhere.
