Subscribe for future emails here! Check out our new audio digest! Mini Briefs The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police Since 2018, studies in commercial face recognition systems have consistently revealed that these products perform worse for people of color. For instance, a study in 2019 found that in a gender classification task, Amazon’s Rekognition performed 31.4% worse for darker-skinned female faces when compared to lighter-skinned male faces.
Last Week in AI News #69
Last Week in AI News #69
Last Week in AI News #69
Subscribe for future emails here! Check out our new audio digest! Mini Briefs The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police Since 2018, studies in commercial face recognition systems have consistently revealed that these products perform worse for people of color. For instance, a study in 2019 found that in a gender classification task, Amazon’s Rekognition performed 31.4% worse for darker-skinned female faces when compared to lighter-skinned male faces.