In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black

Ben Werdmuller

06 Aug 2023

Black faces are overrepresented in databases used to train AI for law enforcement - and some facial recognition software used in this context fails 96% of the time. This practice is an accelerant for already deeply harmful inequities. Time to ban it. #AI

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