In Jacksonville, Florida, police arrested a man because AI facial recognition classified his face as a close match to a suspect’s. The police had the wrong person.
Even though charges were dropped, it’s easy to see how a flawed probabilistic tool used by those who don’t fully understand uncertainty leads to poor results. What happens when law enforcement’s mistake is less obvious and the consequences grow more serious?
The local news segment from Action News Jax:
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