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Why Tech Companies Are Limiting Police Use of Facial Recognition
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:13:45
Publish Date: 2021-02-18 09:00:00
Description: In June 2020, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM announced that they were limiting some uses of their facial recognition technology. In this encore episode, Maddie and Emily talk to AI policy analyst Mutale Nkonde about algorithmic bias — how facial recognition software can discriminate and reflect the biases of society and the current debate about policing has brought up the issue about how law enforcement should use this technology.
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