AI Now 2019 report slams government use of facial recognition, biased AI

AI Now 2019 report slams government use of facial recognition, biased AI

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https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/12/13/ai-now-2019-report-slams-government-use-of-facial-recognition-biased-ai/

“Community groups, workers, journalists, and researchers—not corporate AI ethics statements and policies—have been primarily responsible for pressuring tech companies and governments to set guardrails on the use of AI.” AI Now 2019 report

AI Now’s 2019 report is out, and it’s exactly as dismaying as we thought it would be. The good news is that the threat of biased AI and Orwellian surveillance systems no longer hangs over our collective heads like an artificial Sword of Damocles. The bad news: the threat’s gone because it’s become our reality. Welcome to 1984.