While I have no doubt of the potential for facial recongition systems to have NUMEROUS inbuilt biases, including even IF every actor involved in their creation and deployment held no ill intent. There have only been six such cases apparently. It seems a bit premature for this kind of hedline.
That also being said, this kind of software is just bad in general, even outside of the biases thing.
One more thing. A quote from the article: "Detroit's police chief said their facial recognition technology, when used alone, fails 96% of the time, Insider previously reported." - What?? That's insane. Surely those numbers can't be right? the source on that he goes into more detail with similar specific numbers. I really hope it doesn't only exist to give more ammunition in court, and they don't care whether it works at all...
That also being said, this kind of software is just bad in general, even outside of the biases thing.
One more thing. A quote from the article: "Detroit's police chief said their facial recognition technology, when used alone, fails 96% of the time, Insider previously reported." - What?? That's insane. Surely those numbers can't be right? the source on that he goes into more detail with similar specific numbers. I really hope it doesn't only exist to give more ammunition in court, and they don't care whether it works at all...