The use of AI by the government and law enforcement has elicited serious concerns about its potential for abuse, and Bernie Sanders is making his stance clear
is calling for a ban on police using facial-recognition technology, which has been criticized by civil liberty advocates, as part of a plan to “ensure law enforcement accountability and robust oversight.” The proposal, included in aSanders’ campaign published over the weekend, makes him the first 2020 candidate to condemn law enforcement’s use of the technology—and may push some of his Democratic competitors to do the same.
The use of AI by the government and law enforcement has elicited serious concerns about its potential for abuse. Proponents of the technology, which is already in use in police departments across the country, say it’s a valuable, if flawed, tool to promote public safety. But its critics, including Sanders, have predicted a more dystopian result.
police use of facial recognition. “We have an outsize responsibility to regulate the excesses of technology precisely because they are headquartered here,” city supervisorwho sponsored that bill, said at the time. Staffers of Amazon Web Service, which pitched its Rekognition software to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, circulated an internal email demanding the company
, and protesters have organized against AWS, accusing it of being “complicit” in Trump’s border crackdown by partnering with the federal government.of bias, however, facial-recognition technology is still in use. (“We are going to continue to support the [Department of Defense], and I think we should,” Amazon CEO
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