This session we will be discussing Facial Recognition - the good, the bad and the ugly! No need to read everything - pick a few! If you’ve just got time for one, pick the one in yellow.
Facial recognition is bad?
- Facial recognition is the plutonium of AI. by Luke Stark, Published in Association for Computer Machinery it argues that facial recognition has few legitimate uses article
Facial recognition is good?
- BBC article on pigs - Facial recognition tool ‘could help boost pigs’ wellbeing
- Collateral article on art - Art director Lim Si Ping has created Facebook, the first digital book that, based on facial recognition, tells the perfect story for you
- China uses facial recognition technology to cut down on toilet paper theft article
Should we get ugly? Activism
For a general background, have a browse of the Algorithmic Justice League website. The recent resistance to Amazon’s use of FR is a case in point. Further reading below:
- Joy Buolamwini’s response to Amazon (Medium
post)
- Response: Racial and Gender bias in Amazon Rekognition — Commercial AI System for Analyzing Faces
- Letter from ‘Concerned researchers’ (Medium
post)
- On Recent Research Auditing Commercial Facial Analysis Technology
- AI Now
Letter
re: Dangers of using facial recognition for housing.
- Write up of the letter (The Verge
article)
- AI researchers tell Amazon to stop selling ‘flawed’ facial recognition to the police
- Write up of the letter (The Verge
article)
*Reports *
- Oxfam report on *Biometrics in the Humanitarian Sector *
- Short report on police use of facial recognition (UK Govt, here)
- US Government'sEthical Framework for Facial Recognition
- SAFE pledge from the Algorithmic Justice League https://www.safefacepledge.org/pledge
*Articles *
- Article: *Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions *
- FT article: Taser stun gun maker files facial recognition patents
- Non-consensual use of data for facial recognition training (Slate,
here)
- The Government Is Using the Most Vulnerable People to Test Facial Recognition Software
- New York Times - One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority (here)
- Generally right now, ethics of facial recog - biggest concern? Biggest benefit?
- Should there be bans in any area? (housing, law enforcement, drone targeting)?
- The pig article - use on animals ok? Why or why not?
- What if DK asked to work on a project for a charity - what process? What about if a local government?
- Ethics of data collection/use/normalisation (scraping from flickr, those google “which art does your face look like” stealth toys and apple’s animoji)?
- Is inaccuracy the biggest ethical concern/what if it was 100% accurate? (Joy Buolamwini’s work on race, Luke Stark article)
- Adversarial techniques - feasible? Legal? Will there be arms race?
- Where’s it gonna be in 10 years time? Where should it be in 10 years time?
For tweets from the evening see here.
