By Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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TBILISI, Feb 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A lie detector driven by artificial intelligence and trialled at European Union borders is the focus of a lawsuit that hopes to bring more transparency over the bloc’s funding of “ethically questionable” technology, its proponent said.
Patrick Breyer, a European lawmaker, is requesting the release of EU Research Agency (REA) documents evaluating the 4.5 million euro ($5.4 million) trial of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) lie detectors to ramp up EU border security.
“I want to create a precedent to make sure that the public . can access information on EU-funded research,” said Breyer, of Germany’s Pirate Party, who has described the technology as a “pseudo-scientific security hocus pocus”.
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Belgian police officers perform road checks at the Hensies border crossing between France and Belgium. The iBorderCtrl trial, which ended in 2019, is one of several projects seeking to automate the EU’s increasingly busy borders and counter irregular migration and terrorism. AFP
TBILISI: The European Union’s top court will on Feb 5 hear a case brought by a digital rights activist over a pilot project that used lie-detecting avatars to quiz travellers on EU borders.
Patrick Breyer, a European lawmaker, is requesting the release of EU Research Agency (REA) documents evaluating the €4.5mil (RM21.93mil) trial of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) lie detectors to ramp up EU border security.