Do you ..."Fit the Description" ?

'4. RACIST VALUES EMBEDDED IN "AI" 

Racial prejudices have been found embedded in "AI" and algorithmic systems, including carceral systems which use surveillance techniques, facial recognition, and predictive metric to determine policing tactics, sentencing, and punishments. In 2018, demonstration of a Amazon`s Rekognition facial imaging system made false identification matches to 28 different congresspersons, linking their images to pictures found in mugshot databases (Snow 2018). This outcome is entirely explicable. First, digital cameras and imaging systems see Black and brown faces - and particularly the faces of Black and brown women - less well (Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018). Next, most existing facial recognition systems are trained on mugshot databases. Third, as Black people are over-policed, with many young Black men being spuriously said to have "Fit the Description," the mugshots of Black people are entered into police databases at a disproportionate rate. Then, those databases are used to train algorithmic surveillance systems on how to search for "predictors of criminality." We have even taught these systems to search for particular skin tones (Joseph and Lipp, 2018).' p.248.

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Damien Patrick Williams (2024) Disabling AI: Biases and Values Embedded in Artificial Intelligence, (Chap. 17) 246-261. In. Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. David J. Gunkel (Ed.). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 978 1 80392 671 1245
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-on-the-ethics-of-artificial-intelligence-9781803926711.html

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