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Facial recognition technology doesn’t simply “recognize faces”; it reconfigures the idea of privacy and distributes new kinds of power, risk, opportunity, and vulnerability across society. Dave Karpf describes this kind of thinking as “technological pragmatism,” which involves recognizing that technologies are “catalysts of change” and that “the direction of that change is determined through design choices, and through the social forces of existing institutional arrangements, financial incentives, and power structures.”

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Programmers are not given sufficient time, clear enough direction, or adequate designs to enable them to succeed.

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Alan Cooper

There have been cases where a self-driving car has collided with a tow truck at the side of the road because its training data didn’t include a statistically significant representation of tow trucks (Charrington, 2019).

Resisting AI

Dan McQuillan

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