Michael Connor, executive director at campaign group Open Mic, said it was dangerous for companies to be “paving the way” for the roll-out of facial recognition products without having thought it through. “AI experts say we’re not there yet,” he said, pointing to a study by MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini, which found that two leading facial recognition programmes misidentified black women up to 35 per cent of the time.
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