Microsoft President Brad Smith cited human rights concerns, saying the tech would end up disproportionately targeting women and ethnic minorities.
Speaking at a Stanford University conference on ethical AI, Smith said Microsoft had received the request from a California law enforcement agency to install the technology in officers' cars and body cameras.
"Anytime they pulled anyone over, they wanted to run a face scan," Smith said, adding the officer would check the person's face against a database.Artificial intelligence experts from Facebook, Google, and Microsoft called on Amazon not to sell its facial recognition software to police He said the company concluded that the inherent bias in facial recognition — which is largely trained on white male faces — meant that it would be less accurate identifying women's and people from ethnic minorities' faces, therefore they would end up being held for questioning more frequently.
Smith called for tighter regulation on facial recognition and AI in general, warning that data-hungry companies could end up in a"race to the bottom." His comments come as
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