Facial recognition AI is just facial recognition AI, all it will do is pull up that newspaper clipping. It does not and cannot make any kind of ruling on who’s

Facial recognition AI is just facial recognition AI, all it will do is pull up that newspaper clipping. It does not and cannot make any kind of ruling on who’s a suspect - that is a decision for the police to make. Now, if you have a dim view of the police who are using it, you might expect they will see an obituary and close the case on the spot without investigating further; if you have an optimistic view of the police, you might instead expect they will investigate that obituary to validate it - perhaps by asking the newspaper who ran that obituary, which would lead them to you or one of your associates. I don’t know what happened in that specific case I mentioned; it’s just a story I heard floating around the industry. I tend to have a positive view of police so my assumption in the absence of evidence is that if they cared enough to investigate a cold case, they would also care enough to do some digging on the obituary that turned up, but I don’t know. It’s valid to have a negative view of police! In that case, your assumption might be that they saw that obituary and used it as a convenient excuse to close a case and improve their metrics. This is part of why I say face rec inherits morality from its users.