Experts ask to face facial recognition

Experts ask to face facial recognition

The rapid expansion of the biometric security system has been carried out in the absence of regulation

     Unlocking the phone with a smile, tagged in photos on social networks through artificial intelligence or that facial recognition has become the big brother of S.XXI are some of the uses that machine learning has at your disposal for control and monitor from a privileged position to society.

A powerful tool that has begun to take off in recent months and has not yet found its limits or maybe yes. A report from the AI ​​Now Institute, a major research center in New York (United States) has asked the authorities to control and monitor the uses that is being given to facial recognition.

   Artificial intelligence and machine learning are continually receiving information to build a large network of data and patterns very quickly. Among the tasks they carry out are the identification of objects, or even individual faces, even in images and videos of low quality.

"The implementation of AI systems is expanding rapidly, without adequate governance, oversight or accountability regimes," AI Now Institute experts say in their report.

The text, directed in this case to the Administration of Donald Trump, the investigators ask the government of the United States to take into consideration the regular use of this technology to protect the rights of the citizens of the country.

The document suggests that the public should be warned when facial recognition systems are used to track them and that they should have the right to refuse the use of such technology.

In China, the government of Beijing has turned the country into a great chapter of Black Mirror. «Social Credit», this is the name of the initiative », although detractors have described it as massive espionage.

With this new regulation, China has established a new scoring system that allows sanctions to its citizens that would prevent them from using certain public services. The country has the network of cameras equipped with the largest facial recognition in the world.

Also according to the latest news from the country, in the next few months will introduce a biometric tracking system known as bio-ID. This system would rely on a network would rely on facial recognition systems and scanners for the palm of the hands.

The AI ​​Institute Now report itself warns of this indiscriminate use. "The role of AI in generalized surveillance has expanded greatly in the United States, China and many other countries in the world," they say.

It is not a technology used without control only in China. The United States is also carrying out its experiments. Recently, Delta Airlines has launched a facial registration system at the Atlanta airport and, according to various US media, the CIA works on a similar system for the White House.

AI Institute Now researchers are calling for more regulation and transparency about the information gathered in these recognition systems. The American Civil Liberties Union (UCLA for its acronym in English) has warned of the problems of this type of security systems and ideological biases that move.

In an experiment, this association used the Amazon tool called Rekognition to compare the faces of US federal lawmakers with 25,000 publicly available police photos. "To perform our test, we used exactly the same facial recognition system that Amazon offers the public, that anyone could use to find matches between face images," UCLA said in its research.

The result was surprising. The Rekognition system found that 28 members of Congress incorrectly matched known criminals. Currently, several US police departments. UU They are using this recognition. "If the police are using Amazon Rekognition, it's not hard to imagine a police officer getting a" match "that indicates a person has a previous arrest for weapons, biasing before a search begins," says UCLA.

The AI ​​Institute Now text suggests that the public should be warned when facial recognition systems are used to track them and that, in addition, they should have the right to reject the use of such technology.