Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: facial recognition

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Showing posts with label facial recognition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facial recognition. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 04, 2025

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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FIT the DESCRIPTION?

FIT the DESCRIPTION?

FIT the DESCRIPTION?

FIT the DESCRIPTION?


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

Posts with review to follow.

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Most typical face in the world revealed (amid deep irony)

National Geographic Magazine has revealed what the most typical human on the planet looks like.…

There is a deep irony here (since we are talking about 'skin') in that as the global demographics flow across the decades to alter this typical face, there is a growing proportion of the population who hope that health and social care delivery is not typical and a 'composite'.

They hope that health, nursing and social care is truly personal and individual - taking in their preferences, needs and priorities.

Having said that though - would it be progress if everyone could expect at least to receive what is deemed a 'standard' level of basic nursing care that is in a way 'typical'?

more to follow - more will follow - are we ready?