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…
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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…