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Advocates for responsible uses of AI say that facial recognition technology often disproportionately misidentifies people of color, making it more likely that law enforcement agencies using the database could arrest the wrong person.
An AI Company Scraped Billions of Photos For Facial Recognition. Regulators Can't Stop It|Billy Perrigo|May 27, 2022|Time
If an early-warning system misidentifies a nuclear attack, responders could initiate nuclear annihilation based on a misunderstanding.
Russia’s war in Ukraine raises nuclear risks, physicists warn|Emily Conover|March 7, 2022|Science News
This is to say nothing of the capacity for simple underperformance—of a rifle that misreads the number of bullets left, or of one that misidentifies a civilian as an enemy.
This high-tech gunsight could allow soldiers to shoot around corners, Matrix-style|Kelsey D. Atherton|September 17, 2021|Popular-Science
They make tiny changes to an image that are hard to spot with a human eye but throw off an AI, causing it to misidentify who or what it sees in a photo.
How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies|Will Douglas Heaven|May 5, 2021|MIT Technology Review

Carlson criticized Mabry on his nightly show, but a Fox News spokesperson said the segment “had nothing to do with the Project Veritas clip of CNN’s editorial call” and that the host “did not misidentify Marcus Mabry.”
Project Veritas’s James O’Keefe crashed a private CNN teleconference. CNN says he may have broken the law.|Jeremy Barr|December 3, 2020|Washington Post

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