Congress needs to step up its regulatory game and enact some standards of use for facial recognition technology, at least on law enforcement. That Amazon’s “Rekognition” system just falsely identified 28 faces who serve in Congress as criminals only underscores the dire need for some sort of speedy clampdown. But fact is, even without this...
Imagine a day when applying for a job doesn’t just include a personality test, but also a facial recognition scan that seeks to determine a new-hire’s workplace suitability by analyzing features for trustworthiness, likability and emotional stability. Could you pass the test? More to point: Would you even want to take such an intrusive, privacy-invading...
China, according to a recent report by LinkedIn, is rising in the rankings of numbers of workers in the artificial intelligence industry. This is not, nor should it be, a shoulder-shrug moment. Yes, the United States is currently leading in this regard, employing 850,000 of the world’s 1.9 million who work in A.I.-related fields. China,...
Google, in the face of employee backlash over its drone-imaging contract with the Pentagon called Project Maven, has put in place some ethical rules to guide its company’s artificial intelligence pursuits. And the principles do show promise. But let’s be clear: The devil remains in the details. It’s one thing to lay out a path...
President Donald Trump clarified in a press conference that he meant to say in Helsinki that he saw no “reason why it wouldn’t” — rather than “it would” — be Russia that meddled in America’s 2016 elections, as discovered by U.S. intel and White House national security officials. And OK to that. Believe the man...
Two-hundred and forty-two years ago, the Second Continental Congress gave the go-ahead to a resolution that declared “these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states,” “absolved from all allegiance to the British crown.” Those were Declaration of Independence days. Fast-forward to 2018. How are we doing? Not so good,...
Democrats hate America. That’s one takeaway from a recent Gallup poll that shows only 32 percent of Dems are “extremely proud” to be an American, versus a substantially higher number of Republicans. Of course, that’s a bit snarky. The low showing on the “extremely proud” scale doesn’t necessarily translate into “I hate America.” But any...