BBC News recently published an article on a Cambridge study about the use of AI in job recruitment. Find the article (and study) here. Similar…
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Clearview AI Under Fire from UK
05.28.2022
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that trains its algorithm with some 20 billion photos scraped from the internet (including websites such as Facebook…
Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist?
04.04.2022
The New York Times recently published an article on Google’s recent firing of two AI ethics experts and its grave implications. Find it here. After…
NJ.com: Facial recognition technology is a direct assault on privacy and civil liberties
03.11.2022
The ACLU of New Jersey is among a coalition of other organizations that signed an article on NJ.com detailing their opinion on why facial recognition…
Ex-Uber driver takes legal action over ‘racist’ face-recognition software
11.01.2021
The Guardian recently published an article describing one Uber driver’s legal test case accusing the company of indirect race discrimination their use of facial recognition…
Facebook Apologizes After its AI Mislabels Video of Black Men as “Primates”
10.04.2021
Slate published an article detailing Facebook’s AI’s misidentification of Black men in a video as “primates.” Find the article here. Facebook’s topic recommendation that it…
How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence
09.04.2021
In late August, AP News published a piece detailing Michael William’s wrongful arrest at the hand of machine learning-based gunshot detection technology, as well as…
Rewriting Dystopian Plotlines: It’s All in the Algorithm
08.06.2021
The cases read like dystopian novel plotlines: a man is randomly arrested for robbing a watch store he has just visited. Despite a woman’s qualifications,…
How a Group of Community Advocates Beat Facial Recognition Surveillance in New Orleans
04.06.2021
Vice recently published an article detailing the successful efforts of a grassroots coalition called Eye on Surveillance in New Orleans to stop the use of…
Eliminating Bias in Osteoarthritis Treatment Using AI
03.15.2021
Meet Eleanor and Eve. They share a two-room unit at a retirement home. One afternoon, while playing a game of shuffleboard, Eleanor and Eve both…
Third Known Arrest From Faulty Facial Recognition with Nijeer Parks
01.11.2021
The New York Times recently published an article sharing the story of Nijeer Parks, who was falsely accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an…
How to Make Artificial Intelligence Less Biased
12.16.2020
The Wall Street Journal published an article about the various approaches that have been taken to eliminate bias in artificial intelligence. Find it here. This…
The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research
11.20.2020
A recent Nature survey asked researchers their thoughts on ethical issues surrounding facial recognition studies. The survey follows much discourse in the facial recognition research…
AI experts say research into algorithms that claim to predict criminality must end
09.02.2020
The Verge recently published an article on the call to stop research into algorithms that aim to predict criminality. Find it here. The Coalition for…
Another case of facial recognition gone awry in Detroit
08.03.2020
Detroit Free Press wrote about the story of Michael Oliver, who was mistakenly arrested due to the police’s use of facial recognition technology. Find the…
Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
07.07.2020
The New York Times published an article in June about the wrongful arrest of Robert Julian-Borchak Williams due to a mistake in facial recognition software….
What Does Fairness in AI Mean?
03.03.2020
Forbes recently published an article on the complex definition of fairness in the context of AI. Find it here. When considering how to define and…
NIST Study Evaluates Effects of Race, Age, Sex on Face Recognition Software
12.27.2019
A recent NIST study explored the question of how accurately facial recognition algorithms match faces on a one-to-one scale and one-to-many scale, more specifically how…
The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools
11.14.2019
Wired published an article on the growing use of facial recognition software in schools and its potential implications. Find it here. The use of facial…
How AI changed organ donation in the US
09.30.2019
Quartz published an article surrounding the role of AI in the change of the organ donation process. Find it here. Artificial intelligence algorithms have greatly…