Image Recognition
Porcha Woodruff’s lawsuit is the latest to zero in on facial recognition technology and its potential risks. “Despite its potential, law enforcement’s reliance on facial recognition has led to wrongful arrests, causing humiliation, embarrassment, and physical injury, as evident in this particular incident.”The lawsuit is the latest to zero in on facial recognition technology and its potential risks following warnings by experts about AI’s tendency toward errors and bias, along with the dangers of inaccurate facial recognition usage. In recent years, researchers have cautioned against the widespread use of technologies like facial recognition that may lead to race or gender discrimination. A 2019 U.S. government study found many facial recognition algorithms were far more likely to misidentify racial minorities than White people. In the face of those concerns, several cities nationwide have banned the use of facial recognition by city officials, including San Francisco and Somerville, Massachusetts.