AI Facial Recognition Biases And Policing
AI: The Big Lie — Part 21: Arrested by Algorithm Porcha Woodruff was seven months pregnant when Detroit police arrested her for carjacking, in front of her family, and questioned her for 11 hours. The surveillance footage showed no pregnant woman. No witness mentioned one. Facial recognition flagged her face anyway — and that was enough for police to arrest her. Police say this technology reduces human bias and error. That’s the lie. Federal testing found Black and Asian people are up to 100 times more likely to be misidentified by this software than white men. At least 13 documented wrongful arrests from facial recognition have been dismissed nationwide — almost every victim was Black. Jalil Richardson spent over 50 days in jail before proving, with timesheets, he was in another state the whole time.
source: alfredtom_nyc