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# In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black
- URL: https://werd.io/in-every-reported-case-where-police-mistakenly-arrested-someone-using/
- Published: 2023-08-07T02:26:10.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-07T02:26:10.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:21

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](https://werd.io/tag/AI)

\[[Link](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/every-reported-case-where-police-194117982.html)\]