Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software Is ‘Flawed, Biased and Dangerous’

After identifying 28 members of Congress as police suspects, Amazon’s facial recognition AI seems to work only about 80% of the time, and yet it is being sold en masse to governments and police agencies. Even if it worked 95% of the time, the 5% who are wrongly identified are at risk of having their lives destroyed for nothing. ⁃ TN EditorA facial recognition tool that Amazon.com Inc sells to web developers wrongly identified 28 members of Congress as police suspects, in a test condu