# Did Person of Interest (2011) come true?

Largely, yes. Person of Interest (2011) has a P(n) of 84% on Nearfi's P(n) Board, our estimate of the chance its future arrives within 20 years. Of its 4 tracked predictions, 2 have arrived and 1 are arriving. Its central premise, 'A state system fuses camera, phone and email data and automatically flags named individuals as likely to be involved in violent crime', is partly here. The next prediction is estimated to arrive around 2032.

Source: https://nearfi.co/predictions/person-of-interest-2011

## Predictions

- **ARRIVING** (weight 5/5): A state system fuses camera, phone and email data and automatically flags named individuals as likely to be involved in violent crime. Estimated 2032 (range 2028–2045).
- **ARRIVED** (weight 3/5): Cameras across a city identify people by their faces in real time and match them against watchlists. Arrived 2020.
- **ARRIVED** (weight 3/5): A private contractor's data-fusion platform joins up state records and becomes the backbone of government and police analysis. Arrived 2014.
- **NEAR** (weight 4/5): A single general-purpose AI, able to reason and act across every domain at or above human level, runs continuously and is restrained by what its makers chose to build in. Estimated 2045 (range 2032–2075).