Microsoft declined facial acknowledgment sales out of issue about abuse

Microsoft chose versus selling facial acknowledgment innovation to a California police since it’d likely lead to innocent ladies and minorities being held for questioning regularly, a report stated.

Brad Smith, the business’s president, kept in mind that the unnamed firm wished to set up the innovation in officers’ cars and trucks and body electronic cameras and run face scans on anybody they pulled over, Reuters reported Tuesday. Since the tech’s expert system is trained mostly on white males, there are more cases of incorrect identity with ladies and minorities, the business chose.

Microsoft likewise denied an offer to include the tech to electronic cameras in the capital city of a nation considered not totally free by the not-for-profit Freedom House, Smith supposedly stated at a Stanford University occasion about “human-centered” AI.

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By contrast, it reportedly sold the tech to a US prison because it’d be limited to that environment and improve safety.

The company declined further comment

Back in December, Smith called on governments to enact legislation requiring facial recognition tech to be tested to avoid bias. He also said authorities should be cautious in adopting it

“We must ensure that the year 2024 doesn’t look like a page from the novel 1984,” he wrote at the time.

First published at 4:59 a.m. PT.
Updated at 12:04 p.m. PT: Adds that Microsoft declined further comment.