Image Recognition
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the FBI collaborated on an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition technology program provided to at least six federal agencies and a Pentagon agency that supports civilian police forces, The Washington Post reported. The documents reveal federal authorities were more deeply involved in development of the technology than was previously known, sparking concerns over Americans’ privacy rights. The IARPA program manager said in 2019 the software could “dramatically improve” facial recognition with “scaling to support millions of subjects” and identify faces from obstructed distances. Research teams constructed new algorithms aimed at “radically expanding the scenarios in which automated face recognition can establish identity,” the documents show, according to the Post. The final version of the software, nicknamed Horus, was provided to the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office within the DOD, according to the Post.