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AI For YouFacial Recognition: Where do we go from here?Where do we go from here? Today we dive into how to address the harm that comes from facial recognition technology, by asking lots of different experts from our past episodes. They talk about current regulations and systems of power surrounding the technology.Subscribe for episodes every other Thursday!— Guests: Darren Byler, Jameson Spivack, Ella Jakubowska, Vic Harkness, and Hellen Wu —Darren Byler is an Anthropologist and incoming professor at Simon Fraser University who focuses on Uyghur dispossession, infrastructural power, and "terror capitalism."Jameson Spivack is an Associate at Georgetown Law Cent...
2021-06-2433 min
AI For YouFacial Recognition: What if it hurts more than it helps?What if facial recognition causes more harm than help? We dive into the bias embedded in facial recognition technology itself and the bias in the use of these tools by law enforcement and the government through stories, conversations, and lots of research.Subscribe for episodes every other Thursday!— Guests: Darren Byler, Jameson Spivack, and Ella Jakubowska —Darren Byler is an Anthropologist and incoming professor at Simon Fraser University who focuses on Uyghur dispossession, infrastructural power, and "terror capitalism."Jameson Spivack is an Associate at Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology focu...
2021-06-1032 min
AI For YouFacial Recognition: From Bathrooms to Clearview AI to Jaywalking CamsHow can a camera and a few lines of code identify who we are? On the show, we dive into facial recognition, how it works (neural networks and all that jazz), and how/why it's being used in the US and China, especially by the government and police.Subscribe for episodes every other Thursday!— Guests: Vic Harkness, Sargeant Jason Webb, Hellen Wu—Vic Harkness is a security researcher at F-Secure, based in the South of England. (LinkedIn / Twitter)Sargeant Jason Webb is an intelligence officer and Sargeant in Oxford, Alabama, who uses...
2021-05-2723 min