Canadian Police's Release of Suspect's AI-Generated Facial Photo Reportedly Reinforced Racial Profiling
October 4, 2022
The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) in Canada released a facial image of a Black male suspect generated by an algorithm using DNA phenotyping, which was denounced by the local community as racial profiling.
- Alleged deployer
- edmonton-police-service
- Alleged developer
- parabon-nanolabs
- Alleged harmed parties
- black-residents-in-edmonton
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