There’s a new Risk Bites video up on the risks and ethics of facial recognition technologies:
This is an increasingly important topic as hardware and compute capabilities make it increasingly easy to scan faces and connect their owners with a growing array of information, insights and inferences — not all of which are ethical, just, or accurate!
The blurb below the video on YouTube links to a variety of additional resources, but just to cover all bases, I’m also posting them here:
Facial Recognition: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZjmlJPJgug
AI, Ain’t I A Woman? – Joy Buolamwini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxuyfWoVV98
Predicting Criminal Intent (from Films from the Future): https://hiddenworld.andrewmaynard.me/films-from-the-future-on-youtube/#chapter4
Who’s using your face? The ugly truth about facial recognition (FT): https://www.ft.com/content/cf19b956-60a2-11e9-b285-3acd5d43599e
The Major Concerns Around Facial Recognition Technology (Forbes): https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolemartin1/2019/09/25/the-major-concerns-around-facial-recognition-technology/#235da5f14fe3
‘The Computer Got It Wrong’: How Facial Recognition Led To False Arrest Of Black Man (NPR): https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it-wrong-how-facial-recognition-led-to-a-false-arrest-in-michig
Clearview AI – The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
The world’s scariest facial recognition company, explained (VOX): https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/11/21131991/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-database-law-enforcement
The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools (Wired): https://www.wired.com/story/delicate-ethics-facial-recognition-schools/
Facial recognition: ten reasons you should be worried about the technology (The Conversation): https://theconversation.com/facial-recognition-ten-reasons-you-should-be-worried-about-the-technology-122137
ACLU resources on face recognition: https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/face-recognition-technology
AI Now 2019 report: https://ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2019_Report.pdf Why facial recognition is the future of diagnostics (Medical News Today): https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320316
Facial recognition and AI could be used to identify rare genetic disorders (The Verge): https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18183779/facial-recognition-ai-algorithms-detect-rare-genetic-disorder-fdna
