You're on the right track, but the issue runs deeper than Flock's automated ability to report things to authorities.

The argument that everything in public spaces should be freely accessible to the public is a bit flawed when you start recording the information, indexing it and making it searchable, and setting up automatic searches and alerts, and combining it with public and law enforcement databases (which is what Flock does).

Give me access to 24/7 recordings of all public places in the US, indexed and searchable, and I can become the most powerful person in the US, blackmailing the right people, compromising my opponents, making insider trades (I will know who meets whom in any public places, or at least if they took a public road to get there, any prototype of anything that shows up in any public place, like prototype cars, etc),

If a city chooses to discontinue them, disconnect the power, vote in a law that any power usage by an unauthorized camera disconnected by the city shall be say $1M per kWh, then bill Flock should they choose to reactivate their cameras. Watch how fast they disconnect them themselves.

This is the ultimate end or transformation of the social media industry - everyone has their own, completely made up social media feeds, keeping them content, happy, and viewing real ad revenue generating ads. Better yet, some advertisers can pay to generate content from made up influencers pushing their products. I wonder how many people watching the movie Idiocracy realized it was a very prophetic movie, not just some sci-fi flick.

Some potential solutions:
1. Fine FLOCK for misreading the plates, that will very quickly make the report only the plates they are 100% sure, or perhaps even add a human in the loop for each notification - given the relatively small number of alerts given in the article, that should not be a huge number of humans on call 24/7 to confirm the reading of the plate, or deem it inconclusive (or face a $500k fine if they are wrong).
2. Any agency that doesn't invalidate their submitted license plates for alerts in NVIC and someone gets pulled over for nothing, gets to pay full restitution to the injured party AND gets all of their submissions blocked for a year on first offense, 2 years on next offense, 4 years for next offense, and so on. Competent agencies get to use the system responsibly, incompetent ones get banned eventually forever.

If they all have their projected needs booked, there is no problem then, no shortages of RAM to go into phones and laptops, unless suddenly people want to buy more phones and laptops than the companies projected.

Not is 100% capacity is going to datacenters (0% of any number is 0 bytes of RAM available for those phones or laptops).

^THIS.
Sue Flock, let them throw the police department under the bus if they fucked up by not removing the incorrect BOLO after the first incident. Sue the police department, win a large settlement (use our president as an example, he believed releasing his tax returns are worth 10 billion dollars in compensation, extrapolate from that) empty their coffers, perhaps get a diplomatic license plate as a good will gesture, making it impossible for the cops to pull over the car unless their get the feds to approve it. Other departments will take notice when they see the price tag of making a mistake. If Flock is held partially liable, perhaps they will force their other clients be be more diligent too.

I was on a support call recently. I got fed up and asked to be connected with a human as we were getting nowhere. I was told I was talking to a human (to me they sounded like a dumb AI). So I asked to talk to a smarter human, at which point my chat was disconnected. Was I really talking to a human? No idea.

If there is no more RAM for consumer devices, there will be an ever dwindling number of consumer devices able to use AI services. "Come use our AI for your business", "Oups, I guess you can't do that with devices with no RAM". Maybe it's a good thing, all those AI driven social media feeds, no customers able to read them on devices with 0 RAM, only old devices still floating around. Perhaps it will make the AI companies spend money to optimize the client software to run on old, old hardware, like a PC with 0.5MB or RAM - remember Bill Gates quote "nobody should ever need more then 640KB or RAM"?

I'm sorry, but if you're investing in a fund that uses 400% leverage, you should know you have a low chance of massive returns and good chance of losing most if not all of your investment - similar to a lottery. I believe in free market, therefore I believe anyone should be free to invest in a lottery, but should not be surprised (nor bailed out by other people, i.e. taxpayers) if their lottery ticket doesn't win any money.

While I don't disagree with the history of IP theft, I am having a hard time reconciling it with this story. Are you saying US has the humanoid robots already, and China is just producing cheap clones of US robots? Where are those US made humanoid robots?

How do you assess how much is 18 months of a person's freedom life worth? If someone was to torture you with electricity for an hour, would you only be owed your hourly wage with 1 hour interest as compensation?

Negligence causing an innocent person to be sentenced to 18 months in prison with a criminal record. If you're going to be handed a heavy sword, the onus should be on you for swinging it very carefully, not on others shielding themselves.

Perhaps one good way to gauge the compensation is to sentence the prosecutor, the judge, and other parties involved in the prosecution to 18 months in the same jail, then see how much they would be willing to pay to not go to not have to do the 18 months, and have this charge on their criminal record. The victim here could then decide to either take their money, or let them go to jail unless they are willing to up their offer, in which case the victim can reconsider. This would be somewhat representative of "market value" for 18 months in the very same jail.

Too late. Even if AI doesn't have a summary ready, a lot of people will provide their own access to AI to read the article or watch the video, then summarize it. I personally started doing that, and only go to view the actual article or video if the summary suggests there are details I am interested in - I can even ask AI if specific details I am interested in is present in the original (e.g. article claims to talk about some new study, but has no link or information about who did the study, where to find said study - slop not worth reading, to me). Saves a lot of time and filters out clickbait headlines and bogus articles.