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10 June 2020
From The Verge: IBM FIRMLY OPPOSES Selling Facial Recognition Technology To The Police
IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology
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IBM’s CEO says we should reevaluate selling the technology to law enforcement
By
Jay Peters
@jaypeters
Jun 8, 2020, 8:49pm EDT
I
BM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in
a letter to Congress today
. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells
The Verge
. Krishna addressed the letter to Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Reps. Karen Bass (D-CA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).
“IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any [facial recognition] technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values and
Principles of Trust and Transparency
,” Krishna said in the letter. “We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies.”
Facial recognition software has improved greatly over the last decade thanks to advances in artificial intelligence. At the same time, the technology — because it is often provided by private companies with little regulation or federal oversight — has been shown to suffer from bias along lines of age, race, and ethnicity, which can make the tools unreliable for law enforcement and security and ripe for potential civil rights abuses. . . .
NOTE
:
In his letter, Krishna also advocated for police reform, arguing that more police misconduct cases should be put under the purview of federal court and that Congress should make changes to qualified immunity doctrine, among other measures. In addition, Krishna said that “we need to create more open and equitable pathways for all Americans to acquire marketable skills and training,” and he suggested Congress consider scaling the P-TECH school model nationally and expanding eligibility for Pell Grants.
Update, June 9th, 2:45AM ET:
This story has been updated to reference the work of AI researchers Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru, whose 2018
Gender Shades
project provided the first comprehensive empirical data on bias in facial recognition systems.
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