Racism and bias in prediction is a problem. I’m not sure that’s what’s happening here. The article says false alarm, but when you think about the goal here, a

Racism and bias in prediction is a problem. I’m not sure that’s what’s happening here. The article says false alarm, but when you think about the goal here, a false alarm might just be a lack of ability to get an accurate read through black hair styles. A false alarm doesn’t mean they’re accusing someone. It means their tech isn’t good enough to do the job and they need a manual check to cover the gap. Let’s say it is somehow technologically impossible to infer what’s hidden in an Afro. Wouldn’t you expect manual checks to occur? Otherwise what’s the point of doing checks at all? There would be an easy strategy: rock a ‘fro Unless your argument is against the TSA being nothing but theater because the task is basically impossible against a good determined actor but that’s a separate issue.