The 'Consensus for Change' report found that a slender majority of people interviewed wanted to see more advanced technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics used to boost public safety.
The study - conducted by Motorola Solutions and a research team at Goldsmiths, University of London – found that more than three-quarters of people in the UK (76 per cent) believe technology should be used to help emergency services predict risk, while 72 per cent said technology such as video cameras, data analytics, cyber security and cloud computing needed to be more widely used to address the challenges of the modern world.
The report said that in the wake of the pandemic and the high-speed innovation it sparked in the name of public safety - e.g. accelerated vaccine development; contact-tracing apps, and other technologies - the public is now more willing to place greater trust in new technology.
The research highlights examples such...