Las Vegas police have received funding for tech like drones, license plate readers, and more from Andreessen Horowitz partner Ben Horowitz. Next on its wish list' Artificial intelligence to go through police footage. The city's Sheriff Kevin McMahill said on a podcast with Horowitz and partner Marc Andreessen that he wants to use AI to blur faces or obscure sensitive information from body camera footage. McMahill also said he wants to use AI to help officers sift through the reams of information they receive when they subpoena cell phone tower data during investigations. 'I really believe that some of this AI here in the new future can have tremendous impact on what has caused significant challenge for me as the sheriff,' McMahill said. The giant Silicon Valley venture firm released the episode on Monday, just a few weeks after TechCrunch revealed that Horowitz has been financing the Vegas police department's purchasing of a number of a16z portfolio companies' products. Emails...
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