In this episode of Lock It Down with Security Magazine, I was able to hear the perspective of Steve Lindsey, CTO and Co-Founder of LVT, regarding the future of artificial intelligence in physical security.

Around this time last year, I spoke with security professionals regarding their predictions for physical security in 2025. Multiple experts identified AI as a tool that organizations should consider — if they weren’t already.

In this podcast episode, Lindsey elaborates on the value of leveraging emerging technology in the physical security space, stating, “Technology should be used as a force multiplier for these very scarce human resources — especially in physical security, because physical security isn’t a revenue generator, it’s typically a cost center — and so you put just enough money into it to minimize the liabilities that you have. So, if there’s ever an industry that could leverage the power of AI and the force multiplying factors of AI, it is the security industry.”

Physical locations are challenging to secure. They are dynamic, unpredictable spaces with threats that vary from one day to the next. According to Lindsey, this is exactly why AI can transform an organization’s physical security for the better.

“The problem with the physical space — especially outdoors — is there’s an infinite number of things that could be happening. We just don’t know,” Lindsey says. “And it’s really hard to program for every single one of those types of incidents. But when we think about the advancements that have been made in large language models, specifically around what’s called vision language models (VLMs), the VLMs are able to transform what the camera sees into data, and it is able to do it in such a dynamic way that it really becomes a pair of eyes [to go along with] a figurative brain.”

How AI Will Transform Physical Security

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