Facial Recognition
What’s At Stake If AI Is Increasingly Being Used To Identify Our Emotions?
Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial intelligence (AI) system scans your face, scoring you for nervousness, empathy and dependability. It may sound like science fiction, but these systems are increasingly used, often without people’s knowledge or consent. Emotion recognition technology (ERT) is in fact a burgeoning …
AI Is Killing Choice And Chance – Which Means Changing What It Means To Be Human
The history of humans’ use of technology has always been a history of coevolution. Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to Carl Schmitt have argued that technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends. Technological innovations – from the most rudimentary to the most sophisticated – reshape people as they use these innovations to …
AI Technologies — Like Police Facial Recognition — Discriminate Against People Of Colour
Detroit police wrongfully arrested Robert Julian-Borchak Williams in January 2020 for a shoplifting incident that had taken place two years earlier. Even though Williams had nothing to do with the incident, facial recognition technology used by Michigan State Police “matched” his face with a grainy image obtained from an in-store surveillance video showing another African …
Microsoft Build 2019 | The Ethical Challenges of Building Facial Recognition Systems
Microsoft Build 2019 | The Ethical Challenges of Building Facial Recognition Systems Session ID: CFS2014 While researchers have identified unfair biases in facial recognition systems and policy addressing these issues is beginning to take shape, there has been less discussion about what practical steps developers of facial recognition systems can take to address unfair …
Detecting Deepfakes By Looking Closely Reveals A Way To Protect Against Them
Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons of revenge, to manipulate financial markets or to destabilize international relations, videos depicting people doing and saying things they never did or said are a fundamental threat to the longstanding idea that “seeing is believing.” …