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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study
- danso 7y agoGreat to see a federal study of this. I’m prone to be pessimist and to think that some level of face-recognition will be used in government services — I mean, technically it already is, since photo ID is all but mandated for air travel. But a disparity of 10 to 100x for different racial groups would seem to make face-recognition a non-starter in the U.S., for everyday use by police for something like stop and frisk. But the pessimist in me thinks that the racial gap in algorithmic performance currently exist only because there hasn’t been enough profit motive to fix it, and if there’s the potential for a massive federal contract, there will be firms enthusiastic and capable of improving state of the art.