F facial Recognition Technology. They testified before the House Oversight and reform committee. Working on e is legislation to address the emerging technology. Good morning, everyone, and is out objection the chair authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Would now like to recognize myself to give an opening statement. Today the committee is holding on a critical ng issue. Facial recognition tech. Its clear that despite the sectors expanded use of technology, its just not ready primetime. During this hearing, well private sectors development, use and sale of technology as well as its partnerships with Government Entities, using this technology. We learned from our first may 22 of 2019 that he use of facial Recognition Technology can severely impact American Civil Rights and liberties, including the right to privacy. Protection and equal under the law. We learned during our second federal, n june 4 how state and local Government Entities use this technology on wide
The committee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that i would like to recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. Today, the committee is holdingg our third hearing this congress on a critical issue, facial Recognition Technology. It is clear that, despite the private sectors expanded use of technology, its just not ready for prime time. During this hearing we will examine the private sectors development, use, and sale of technology as well as its partnerships with Government Entities, using this technology. We learn from our first hearing on may 22 of 2019 that the use of facial Recognition Technology can severely impact American Civil Rights and liberties, including the right to privacy, free speech, and equal protection under the law. We learned during our second hearing on june 4 how federal, state and local Government Entities use this technology on a wide scale, yet abide
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Where the subject of algorithmic fairness or privacy is not frontpage news today we will speak to the two leading lights in that area they will help us understand the state of the art is now and Going Forward with that we will welcome professor kearns first to the stage. Welcome to the stage. [applause] good morning thank you for coming my name is Michael Kearns with my close friend and colleague writing a general audience book called the ethical algorithm so for roughly half an hour we want to take you had a high level to the major themes of the book then we will open to q a. So many people and certainly this audience is aware in the past decade Machine Learning has gone from relatively obscure to mainstream news to characterize the first half of this decade is the glory. When all reports were positive with all these amazing advances like deep learning and speech recognition image categorization in many other areas we all enjoy the great benefits of this technology and the advances ma
If conflict is looking different under a number of Legal Framework to try as much as possible to limit the damage especially on civilians they are quickly becoming outdated. They see much more estate they follow the different framework. I think it is something we need to reflect very carefully Going Forward how do we adopt, reform and make sure that our legal law principles are both solid and grounded and help us fight the wars that we need to fight while staying true to our values. To me that be a key challenge of the future. And the question that you are really asking is what will be different that someone in that role of the staff officer and military mutts can be different from them when they are advising their boss on what to do. I think there are two things that stand out. One is a play off of what paul brought up. Ten years out. The task of that staff officer in the executive is not can it be go out and get me the information on acts rather its going to be help me to figure out