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Aug 2020
19m 29s

In Machines We Trust: Who Owns Your Face...

Mit Technology Review
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Police have a history of using face recognition to arrest protestors—something not lost on activists since the death of George Floyd. In the last of a four-part series on facial recognition, host Jennifer Strong explores the way forward for the technology and examines what policy might look like.  We meet: Artem Kuharenko, NTechLab Deborah Raji, AI Now Inst ... Show More
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