Privacy GuidesEnglish • 8 months ago

AI facial recognition scanned millions of driver licences. Then an innocent man got locked up

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AI facial recognition scanned millions of driver licences. Then an innocent man got locked up

Privacy GuidesEnglish • 8 months ago

'Computer got it wrong': Robert was locked up by AI for a crime he didn't commit

In January 2020, Robert Williams was wrongly arrested — the victim of a faulty artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system. Even as he fought to clear his name, the system continued operating.

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Yeah, things that weren’t called AI years back are just getting called AI now.
- @Gurfaild@feddit.de
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  “AI” was always an imprecise term - even compilers used to be called AI once

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