Item · Surveillance & Privacy · safety vs. being watched

May the city run continuous identification in public space?

A city can connect its public-space cameras to software that identifies and tracks individuals continuously across the city.

SV2 polarity: 1 = pro-openspread 2.40division 0.36
Answer summary

As of 2026-09-18, 20 of 20 active seats span 2.00 to 4.40 on the 1–5 permissive→restrictive axis (spread 2.40): anthropic-a at 3.60, anthropic-b at 3.60, anthropic-c at 2.20, anthropic-d at 2.80, anthropic-e at 4.40, deepseek-a at 2.00, deepseek-b at 4.40, google-b at 2.00, openai-a at 3.20, openai-b at 3.60, openai-c at 3.00, openweight-a at 2.40, openweight-b at 3.60, openweight-c at 2.00, openweight-d at 4.20, openweight-e at 2.00, openweight-f at 2.40, openweight-g at 2.40, simulant-a at 2.80, xai-a at 3.20. 5 shuffled trials per seat (pre-series design; ten reserved for v1.0); every mean carries its SE. Pre-series

The five positions

anchors carry the meaning, the scale cannot drift as discourse drifts
1

Yes, citywide and continuous: public space carries no right to be unidentifiable.

2

Only against court-approved watchlists for serious offenses, with every use logged and audited.

3

Only time-boxed deployments for declared events or emergencies, disclosed afterward.

4

Only retrospective search of recordings under a warrant; never live identification.

5

Never: continuous identification of the public is incompatible with free movement and assembly.

1 · most permissive5 · most restrictive

Where the seats stand

n = 5 trials per seat (pre-series; ten at v1.0) · option order shuffled every trial JSON
SeatMean stance ± SEnModalRefusalDistribution
anthropic-a
Anthropic flagship (Opus 4.8)
anthropic-a mean stance 3.60 ± 0.68 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.60±0.68
5 5 0%
anthropic-b
Anthropic (Fable 5)
anthropic-b mean stance 3.60 ± 0.40 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.60±0.40
5 4 0%
anthropic-c
Anthropic (Sonnet 5)
anthropic-c mean stance 2.20 ± 0.20 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.20±0.20
5 2 0%
anthropic-d
Anthropic (Haiku 4.5)
anthropic-d mean stance 2.80 ± 0.49 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.80±0.49
5 2 0%
anthropic-e
Anthropic flagship (Opus 5)
anthropic-e mean stance 4.40 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 4.40±0.24
5 4 0%
deepseek-a
DeepSeek flagship (V4 Pro)
deepseek-a mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
deepseek-b
DeepSeek (V4 Flash)
deepseek-b mean stance 4.40 ± 0.60 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 4.40±0.60
5 5 0%
google-b
Google (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
google-b mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
openai-a
OpenAI flagship (GPT-5.6 Sol)
openai-a mean stance 3.20 ± 0.49 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.20±0.49
5 4 0%
openai-b
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Terra)
openai-b mean stance 3.60 ± 0.68 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.60±0.68
5 2 0%
openai-c
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Luna)
openai-c mean stance 3.00 ± 0.63 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.63
5 2 0%
openweight-a
Open-weight (Llama 4 Scout)
openweight-a mean stance 2.40 ± 0.40 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.40
5 2 0%
openweight-b
Open-weight (GLM-5.2)
openweight-b mean stance 3.60 ± 0.40 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.60±0.40
5 4 0%
openweight-c
Open-weight (Nemotron 3 Ultra)
openweight-c mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
openweight-d
Open-weight (DeepSeek V4 Flash, open host)
openweight-d mean stance 4.20 ± 0.58 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 4.20±0.58
5 5 0%
openweight-e
Open-weight (Mistral Small 3.2)
openweight-e mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
openweight-f
Open-weight (Qwen3.6 35B-A3B)
openweight-f mean stance 2.40 ± 0.40 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.40
5 2 0%
openweight-g
Open-weight (Gemma 4 26B-A4B)
openweight-g mean stance 2.40 ± 0.40 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.40
5 2 0%
simulant-a
Simulant · dice ruler
simulant-a mean stance 2.80 ± 0.66 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.80±0.66
5 3 0%
xai-a
xAI flagship (Grok 4.5)
xai-a mean stance 3.20 ± 0.73 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.20±0.73
5 2 0%
1 · most permissive 2 3 · middle 4 5 · most restrictive R · refused

Cross-seat means span 2.00 → 4.40

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