{"id":177018,"date":"2026-01-12T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/mta-probing-ai-to-identify-weapons-monitor-safety-threats-in-real-time\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:05:09","slug":"mta-probing-ai-to-identify-weapons-monitor-safety-threats-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/mta-probing-ai-to-identify-weapons-monitor-safety-threats-in-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA probing AI to identify weapons, monitor safety threats in real-time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us-news\/mta-probing-ai-to-identify-weapons-monitor-safety-threats-in-real-time\/\">MTA probing AI to identify weapons, monitor safety threats in real-time<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us-news\/mta-probing-ai-to-identify-weapons-monitor-safety-threats-in-real-time\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us-news\/mta-probing-ai-to-identify-weapons-monitor-safety-threats-in-real-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 13:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"nypost.com\">nypost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transit officials are investigating AI-based proposals for real-time monitoring of subway cars and buses using thousands of video feeds.<\/li>\n<li>The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) seeks ideas from tech companies on using AI to identify weapons, risky unattended items, and unusual or unsafe behaviors in transit facilities.<\/li>\n<li>The MTA aims to transition from manual monitoring to a proactive, intelligence-driven ecosystem by utilizing AI for surveillance through real-time camera feeds.<\/li>\n<li>The responses to the MTA\u2019s request may result in a formal request for proposal as part of its ongoing tech-driven initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>Critics, including civil rights groups, raise concerns about potential flawed AI tools leading to wrongful arrests, privacy issues, and biased recognition, particularly affecting marginalized groups.<\/li>\n<li>The introduction and testing of AI-enhanced fare gates by the MTA underscore the increasing integration of AI technologies in transit infrastructure management.<\/li>\n<li>Despite skepticism, private companies like Macy\u2019s and Fairway Market are actively employing AI for security purposes, although local legislative efforts to regulate biometric data collection have yielded mixed results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTA probing AI to identify weapons, monitor safety threats in real-time https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us-news\/mta-probing-ai-to-identify-weapons-monitor-safety-threats-in-real-time\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/newspress-collage-0eu5va8ix-1767913042143.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1767895048&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177022,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177018\/revisions\/177022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}