As artificial intelligence continues to change the way we interact with and move through the world, not everyone may be aware of just how invasive this technology can actually be, and in some cases, is already.
Last month, the city of Detroit introduced new rules on police use of AI facial recognition technology after the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of three residents who were wrongfully arrested because of the technology.
Casimir Hill is a feature writer on The New York Times’ business desk specializing in technology and privacy. Hill appeared on Created Equal on Thursday to discuss the privacy limitations associated with this technology and the new rules adopted by the City of Detroit.
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Casimir Hill is a New York Times feature writer who specializes in privacy, artificial intelligence and surveillance, and the author of “Your Face Belongs to Us.” As AI has continued to develop over the years, Hill says, computers have become much more powerful given the data they’re given and finding unique ways to process and understand it.
“AI has gotten better as computers have become able to process large amounts of data and find patterns,” Hill says. “When police first started using facial recognition in the early 2000s, it didn’t work very well. Computers had a hard time recognizing that two different photos were the same person if they had facial hair or were looking away from the camera. They were pretty good at taking two mugshots or driver’s license photos and comparing them, but they didn’t work well in other situations. So the technology has gotten more powerful. I like to talk about facial recognition because it’s a very concrete example of AI and it’s easy to understand.”
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