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| IBM has abandoned facial recognition technology |
Technology giant IBM withdrew from the face recognition technology market and forced law enforcement agencies to use technology for national dialogue. Surprisingly, technology companies face an increasingly stringent review of US police contracts in the event of violent actions against peaceful protests.
The company no longer offers a facial recognition program to monitor face or analyze ethnic characteristics. IBM said the artificial intelligence system used in this technology should be tested for any anomalies.
It urged the company to use transparency technologies (such as body cameras and data analytics) instead of relying on potential biased facial recognition technologies.
In an open letter to Congress, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna explained the company's decision to withdraw from work and announced plans to work with Congress to deliver ethnic justice. Initially his work focused on three main areas: police reform and responsible behavior. Technology and expansion of educational skills and opportunities.
Krishna said: The company no longer offers a facial recognition program or general analysis. IBM strongly opposes the use of technologies (including facial recognition technologies from other vendors) for mass surveillance, racial discrimination, human rights violations, fundamental freedoms, or others. The goal does not reflect our values and principles.
"We now believe it is time to start a national debate about whether local law enforcement will use facial recognition technology and how to do that," he added, but some people question IBM's decision, noting that the company has already entered into a sales competition. the third. Facial recognition technology.
The company not only reserves the right to sell technology to other companies through a large consulting firm, but also reserves the right to sell facial recognition technology for specific purposes.
In addition, even now, IBM's evidence is the strongest evidence that large technology companies have refused to misuse face recognition services.
In the past decade, face recognition technology has made great strides due to advances in artificial intelligence, and has found that technology suffers from racial and racial biases that can make the tool unreliable to law enforcement and security forces. And involve them in potential violations of civil rights.
A study published in 2018 revealed the gaps in many commercial facial recognition systems, including the IBM system, and criticized this research and subsequent such algorithms and attempts to correct the gaps.
A 2019 study found that Microsoft, Amazon and IBM face recognition devices did not identify men and women with darker skin tones with 100% accuracy.
A study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology showed that facial recognition algorithms for identifying the faces of African Americans and Asians are not as accurate as Caucasians.
(IBM) attempted to solve the problem of technological distortions related to facial recognition when the company released a public data set in 2018 to help reduce the bias in training data for the facial recognition model in the United States.