🔬 Science 20h ago · Joe Wilkins

Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate

Futurism
Futurism science news
View Channel →
Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate
Source ↗ 👁 0 💬 0
From New York City to the streets of Tokyo, creepy AI-facial recognition security systems are quickly becoming a common sight across the world. Unfortunately for many, the tech is nowhere near ready for the responsibility of live use as the troubling rise of false-positive matches makes clear.



In the United Kingdom, AI surveillance systems in retail stores have led to a surge in customers being wrongly accused of shoplifting. TechRadar highlighted a number of recent cases throughout the

Comments (0)

Sign in to join the discussion

More Like This

‘They have schedules to follow’: how fast ferries can threaten endangered whales in the Mediterranean
Environment | The Guardian · 4h ago
New Research Resolves the Mystery Behind Van Gogh's The Starry Night
Universe Today · 6h ago
Near-Death Experiences Seem to Follow Strange Rules of Shape And Color, Study Reveals
ScienceAlert · 6h ago
Scientists Create a Tiny Electronic Device That Can Learn Like the Human Brain
SciTechDaily · 6h ago
This Unusual Spider’s Genome Is Roughly 50% Larger Than a Human’s
SciTechDaily · 7h ago
Global sexual health: Why communal knowledge about pleasure and well-being matters
Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories · 7h ago