From the course: Responsible AI: Principles and Practical Applications
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Risks of AI
From the course: Responsible AI: Principles and Practical Applications
Risks of AI
- In 2019, Nijeer Parks was accused of shoplifting candy from a hotel gift shop in New Jersey. Police identified Parks by running facial recognition technology on a fake driver's license that the suspect dropped when fleeing. Parks was arrested and held for 10 days. But there was a problem. He was innocent. Bank records confirmed that he was 30 miles away at the time of the crime, making a purchase in a pharmacy. Police departments and law enforcement agencies are increasingly rolling out AI enabled technologies, such as facial recognition systems, to increase efficiency of operations. Facial recognition systems use machine learning techniques to identify, collect, store, and evaluate facial characteristics so that they can be matched to photos of people in a database. But these systems are often fraught with bias. Leading AI researchers, Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru, evaluated the accuracy of commercial facial…
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