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>>vermon+(OP)
I don't think using the facial recognition is necessarily wrong to help identify probable suspects, but arresting someone based on a facial match algorithm is definitely going too far.

Of course really I blame the AI/ML hucksters for part of this mess who have sold us the idea of machines replacing rather than augmenting human decision making.

>>hpoe+V1
Yeah, facial recognition can be useful in law enforcement, as long as it's used responsibly. There was a man who shot people at a newspaper where I lived, and when apprehended, he refused to identify himself, and apparently their fingerprint machine wasn't working, so they used facial recognition to identify him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Gazette_shooting

>>dx87+e5
> as long as it’s used responsibly

At what point can we decide that people in positions of power are not and will not ever be responsible enough to handle this technology?

Surely as a society we shouldn’t continue to naively assume that police are “responsible” like we’ve assumed in the past?

>>YPCrum+L7
> Surely as a society we shouldn’t continue to naively assume that police are “responsible” like we’ve assumed in the past?

Of course we shouldn't assume it, but we absolutely should require it.

Uncertainty is a core part of policing which can't be removed.