AI-assisted surveillance found 15 hidden practitioners in under four minutes
Dave_Maynor · x · 2026-07-28
AI-assisted surveillance spotted all 15 “gray men” in under four minutes
The author describes a gray-man simulation in realistic public environments using AI-assisted video and audio analysis.
- Trained practitioners were blended into ordinary foot traffic.
- Across the test scenarios, all 15 were identified in under four minutes.
- The takeaway is that modern security systems can record, correlate, and pattern-search so effectively that deliberate blending in may itself become suspicious.
- He also adds a humorous note: the most “normal” person in the test may have been the one who avoided screens, stayed aware, and looked the least like a covert operator.
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