False facial recognition sends innocent New Jersey man to jail By CNN Staff | April 29, 2021 at 5:35 PM EDT - Updated April 30 at 9:33 AM
(CNN) - New Jersey police arrested an innocent man on unlawful possession of a weapon, resisting arrest and aggravated assault charges after he was falsely identified by facial recognition technology.
Law enforcement agencies across the country use facial recognition to generate leads on suspects, but it can have a major negative impact on innocent people if the technology gets it wrong.
Police responded to reports of a theft at a Hampton Inn in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
The suspect drove away, hitting a police car and, police claim, almost running over an officer.
Google Faces Ongoing Backlash from AI Researchers
14 Apr 2021
Google is continuing to face strong criticism from the AI research community following the firing of two of the company’s top AI ethics researchers.
The Verge reports that tech giant Google is continuing to face significant backlash from its decision to fire Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the company’s top AI ethics researchers who examined the downsides of tech that is integral to Google’s search products.
Scott Niekum, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, discussed the firing of the researchers, telling the Verge: “Not only does it make me deeply question the commitment to ethics and diversity inside the company, but it worries me that they’ve shown a willingness to suppress science that doesn’t align with their business interests.”
https://www.afinalwarning.com/498835.html (Natural News) Google has fired Margaret Mitchell, the founder and co-head of its artificial intelligence ethics unit, for violating the company’s code of conduct.
The firing came less than three months after the controversial exit of another senior figure in the company’s AI ethics unit, Timnit Gebru.
Google said that an investigation found Mitchell had moved files outside the company.
“After conducting a review of this manager’s conduct, we confirmed that there were multiple violations of our code of conduct, as well as of our security policies, which included the exfiltration of confidential business-sensitive documents and private data of other employees,” Google said in a statement.
Sometimes, like a total eclipse, my two great passions technology and reality TV become one. It happened in November 2017, when, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I cajoled then-Future Tense contributor Jacob Brogan into writing about the previous night’s
Teen Mom 2 episode. It grappled with a critical question: Is it OK to shoot down a drone flying above private property? Jacob captured it brilliantly:
The segment in question begins as (former) teen mom Jenelle prepares for her wedding to David, a very cool and normal dude who we will return to in a moment. David, stalking the property like an ornery bison, calls Jenelle, informing her that “some girls” were attempting to take pictures of the event before it began. “Now they’re, like, flying drones over the house, and driving by taking pictures. Trying to get video of the whole thing,” he continues.