Artificial Intelligence
Title: World News #82 – Artificial Intelligence (Racist System)
Created: 2023
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
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“His comments came two days after the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan urged Detroit police to stop using the technology. The city was sued last week by Porcha Woodruff, a 32-year-old Black woman, who was arrested in February while trying to get children ready for school. There have been two similar lawsuits against Detroit.
Woodruff was identified as a suspect in a January robbery and carjacking through facial-recognition technology. She denied any role. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office said charges later were dropped because the victim did not appear in court.
White said his officers will not be allowed “to use facial-recognition-derived images in a photographic lineup. Period.””
– ABCNews, “Detroit police changing facial-recognition policy after pregnant woman says she was wrongly charged”.
“This is dangerous and the threat needs to be addressed before biased AI systems become ubiquitous. Ultimately, AI systems have the potential to deepen existing systemic inequalities, particularly in industries like healthcare, employment, and criminal justice. This injustice could lead to growing distrust in private and governmental institutions as marginalized groups face further discrimination. A deep-seeded distrust in these important institutions is detrimental to American national security, as democracy requires a certain level of trust from its citizens to function. As such, we need to recognize and combat these biases to prevent discrimination and racist actions by machines that will likely be a large part of our future.
It is important to focus on private companies when considering AI because of their dominance in research and development, as well as their aim to proliferate this technology. There are already countless examples of bias in AI exemplified in private companies’ practices. For example, Amazon recently created a facial recognition system, “Rekognition,” that was proficient at detecting lighter-skinned men but had trouble identifying darker-skinned women and men.[1] Facial recognition AI programs learn from training data, in this case millions of pictures inputted by humans. The service misidentified women for men 19% of the time and darker-skinned women for men 31% of the time, but for lighter-skinned males, there was no error.[2] While unknown, this was likely due to the skewed sample of training data pictures, with more containing lighter-skinned people than darker-skinned people.[3] “
– Georgetown Security Studies Review, Racism is Systemic in Artificial Intelligence Systems, Too.
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