Facial recognition and diversity have not gone together seamlessly. On the one hand, despite the popular rise of facial recognition technology over the past several years, we have witnessed the exclusion of people of color from the design and implementation process. Facial recognition tools are often discriminatory, and time after time, softwares either fail to recognize people of color or mislabel them. On the other hand, facial recognition technology is also one that is increasingly integrated into police and state surveillance tools. Addressing these tensions, this class will explore tools of surveillance and whom they target, the social and political implications of AI development, and the unintended effects that diversity and inclusion might have.
SFPC Code Societies 2018
Instructor: Sarah Aoun
Suggestion: best to read the 3 readings under Algorithmic accountability (and watch short video), and read a few in Surveillance Tech. The rest is (highly) suggested.
Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy
Video: How I'm fighting bias in algorithms
Against Black Inclusion in Facial Recognition
Video: Race, Surveillance and Empire: A Historical Overview
Facial recognition may be coming to a police body camera near you
The Next Frontier of Police Surveillance Is Drones
Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology
Facial recognition software is not ready for use by law enforcement
Taser will use police body camera videos to "anticipate criminal activity"
Racial profiling, by a computer? Police facial-ID tech raises civil rights concerns