BIAS IN AI: NYPD's Facial Recognition Cameras Reinforce Discriminatory Policing
October 8, 2016
The New York Police Department's deployment of facial recognition technology has reportedly been shown to reinforce biased policing, using crowdsourced data. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). JOIN US: Help prevent harm from biased AI and support trustworthy AI governance.
- Alleged deployer
- new-york-police-department
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- racial-minorities
Source
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Data source
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