Thursday, November 23, 2023

Facial Recognition and Systemic Racism


From the November 20, 2023 "The New Yorker" - an article by Eyal Press:

"In 2019, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal agency, published a study revealing that many facial-recognition systems falsely identified Black and Asian faces between ten and a hundred times more frequently than Caucasian ones. Errors were also more common for women and elderly people."

And some folks wonder why the informed among us decry systemic racism.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/does-a-i-lead-police-to-ignore-contradictory-evidence