Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?

Conflow Power Group has installed AI-enabled solar-powered smart lamp-posts in the UK that can recognize faces and number plates and serve as distributed AI datacenters. These iLamps have surveillance capabilities and have been sold to Nigeria as well, raising privacy and data ownership concerns. The extent of their current functionality and data use remains unclear, prompting debate about surveillance and governance.