Artificial intelligence is seeping into everyday use. AI tools can help organize your mountain of family photos that grew over the holidays by identifying faces and grouping pictures of the same person. On social media, AI-altered images are often indistinguishable from those made by humans. The use of chatbots has grown in academic settings for better or for worse.
Buolamwini questioned whether her problem was unique or would happen to others with dark skin. And she found that the data was skewed.This poses problems especially when AI is used by law enforcement agencies to identify suspects, assess whether a defendant will commit another crime, and assign bond limits or flight risk status. Buolamwini usesas an example.
Buolamwini stresses that even if data set bias was addressed, accurate artificial intelligence could still pose problems and be abused. Law enforcement isn’t the only sector that uses facial recognition. Banks use the technology to verify credit card users and universities use it to ensure online test-takers are who they say they are. But in Buolamwini’s opinion, the benefits of efficiency and validation do not outweigh the risks.live facial recognition in public spaces in June 2023. Buolamwini says the U.S. should evaluate its data privacy and protection laws before artificial intelligence becomes even more commonplace.