AI gumshoe
“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.
“Alvi Choudhury, 26, a software engineer, was working at the home he shares with his parents in Southampton in January when police knocked on his door, handcuffed him and held him in custody for nearly 10 hours before releasing him at 2am.
“Thames Valley police had used automated facial recognition software which matched him with footage of a suspect of a £3,000 burglary 100 miles away in Milton Keynes, according to documents shared with the Guardian by Liberty Investigates.
“But the CCTV footage showed a noticeably younger man with different features apart from similar curly hair, said Choudhury, who was left confused about why he had been arrested.”
Apparently, they already knew this was the ChatGPT of surveillance.
“But the technology was revealed in December to produce a far higher rate of false positives for black (5.5 %) and Asian (4.0 %) faces than for white faces (0.04 %) at certain settings, according to Home Office commissioned research.”
Kinda takes the recognition out of “facial recognition.” ICE will be all over this.
AI does racial profiling
“Alvi Choudhury, 26, a software engineer, was working at the home he shares with his parents in Southampton in January when police knocked on his door, handcuffed him and held him in custody for nearly 10 hours before releasing him at 2am.
“Thames Valley police had used automated facial recognition software which matched him with footage of a suspect of a £3,000 burglary 100 miles away in Milton Keynes, according to documents shared with the Guardian by Liberty Investigates.
“But the CCTV footage showed a noticeably younger man with different features apart from similar curly hair, said Choudhury, who was left confused about why he had been arrested.”
Apparently, they already knew this was the ChatGPT of surveillance.
“But the technology was revealed in December to produce a far higher rate of false positives for black (5.5 %) and Asian (4.0 %) faces than for white faces (0.04 %) at certain settings, according to Home Office commissioned research.”
Kinda takes the recognition out of “facial recognition.” ICE will be all over this.
AI does racial profiling
It is not as if the failure rate of facial recognition for non-Caucasian faces hasn’t been known for years. It is not as if AI were not known for making serious errors. How much does it take for a human being to look at the results that the system spits out before arresting someone. Does a judge really take the word of AI as gospel? Why not show him the images and let him agree they look alike before signing the warrant?
Joel:
They can profile all they wish too. It has happened to me where an officer was on the prowl looking for the catch of the day. All I did was smile at his boss as I explained what I was doing and why I was there. My thoughts?
What a jackass. And I was not a minority. I guess a question might be: “What is reasonable?