Face Recognition Software Led to His Arrest. It Was Dead Wrong
The proposed Maryland bills were developed with input from a working group that saw state lawmakers meet with prosecutors and public defenders, law enforcement agencies, and...
How One Guy’s AI Tracked the Chinese Spy Balloon Across the US
Earlier this month, entrepreneur Corey Jaskolski pulled out a pen and drew his best guess at what the surveillance balloon shot down by a US jet would...
Should Algorithms Control Nuclear Weapons Launch Codes? The US Says No
Last Thursday, the US State Department outlined a new vision for developing, testing, and verifying military systems—including weapons—that make use of AI. The Political Declaration on Responsible...
Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
Teach a robot to open a door, and it ought to unlock a lifetime of opportunities. Not so for one of Alphabet’s youngest subsidiaries, Everyday Robots. Just...
Get Used to Face Recognition in Stadiums
Just because face recognition was installed for one use case doesn’t mean it won’t or can’t be adapted to others. In airports, Delta Airlines started using face recognition...
Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI
Spain’s regional elections are still nearly four months away, but Irene Larraz and her team at Newtral are already braced for impact. Each morning, half of...
ChatGPT Is Coming for Classrooms. Don’t Panic
When high school English teacher Kelly Gibson first encountered ChatGPT in December, the existential anxiety kicked in fast. While the internet delighted in the chatbot’s superficially sophisticated answers...
China Is the World’s Biggest Face Recognition Dealer
“It bolsters the case for why we need to be setting parameters around this type of technology,” says Alexandra Seymour, an associate fellow at the Center for...
How to Spot AI-Generated Art, According to Artists
How long will the naked eye be able to spot the difference between images made by generative artificial intelligence and art created by humans? Ari Melenciano, an...
The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from a company called Knack, where a person...