Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state
Nilay Patel
created: Feb. 16, 2026, 3 p.m. | updated: Feb. 17, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
So, the mental model, or how I look at it, is that AI allows us to have ...
And then, if that neighborhood had an HOA with, call it private security, and those private security were also around and knew everything, what would happen?
Just the idea that every house on my street would have all-knowing private security guards, and I would have an HOA, and that HOA would have a private security force.
There’s a lot of intelligence in your neighborhood, and maybe it’s private security, maybe it’s not.
Right now, we just say motion detection, motion detection, motion detection.
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