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Ring’s AI-powered Search Party won’t stop at finding lost dogs, leaked email shows

Ring’s AI-powered Search Party won’t stop at finding lost dogs, leaked email shows

Ring's AI-powered Search Party won't stop at finding lost dogs, leaked email shows

Ring’s AI-powered Search Party won’t stop at finding lost dogs, leaked email shows

A leaked internal email obtained by 404 Media shows that Ring has bigger plans for its AI-powered neighborhood search capability than just looking for lost dogs. The outlet reports the email, sent last October by founder Jamie Siminoff to all Ring employees, says that with Search , “You can now see a future where we are able to zero out crime in neighborhoods.”

Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, has come under intense criticism in recent weeks following a Super Bowl commercial for its Search Party feature that showed Ring cameras surveilling a neighborhood for lost dogs.

The ad, which details how AI can be used to search …

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