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Racial bias plagues facial recognition software, US agency finds
By Noah Manskar
December 20, 2019 | 4:13pm
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A sweeping study backed by the US government found facial-recognition programs misidentify people of color far more frequently than white people, indicating racial bias plagues the software.
Algorithms wrongly matched photos of black and Asian people 10 to 100 times more often than white people, according to the study from the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Such “demographic differentials†make minorities more vulnerable to imposters and false accusations, the research suggests.
“While we do not explore what might cause these differentials, this data will be valuable to policymakers, developers and end users in thinking about the limitations and appropriate use of these algorithms,†said Patrick Grother, a computer scientist at the institute and the report’s main author.
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