Image Recognition
Remember a couple years ago, when Chinese gaming giant Tencent began using facial recognition to keep the kids from playing too many videogames? It turns out that the Entertainment Software Rating Board, North America's videogame rating agency, is looking to do something quite similar. The entire process of verification takes less than a second "on average," and images are permanently deleted after the verification is complete. Accuracy strikes me as the big one, given that facial recognition technology is so notoriously racist: A study conducted in the US, for instance, found that Asian and African American people were up to 100 times more likely to be incorrectly identified by facial recognition systems than white people. "The range of difference by skin tone is between 8 out of 1,000 vs 28 out of 1,000.