Yo, technology.

What is it all about?

I don't know of any other industry, airline, pharmaceutical, where we allow for real-time

experimentation on human populations, which essentially is what's happening with facial recognition.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley. Yes, it's me again. As promised, we wanted to bring

you another conversation that was really right in the mix of everything that's been going on

these last couple weeks. And one of the big issues that has emerged amidst all this,

the chaos and the protests and everything else is facial

recognition technology questions about how it's being developed how it's being used especially

by the government by the police etc border patrols and this sudden effort that is just bubbled up

to regulate it.

So you may have seen the last week, IBM announced it was shutting down its facial recognition business.

Amazon said it was suspending the sale of technology to police forces for a year, all of which is the idea is, you know, this is very potentially very powerful.

We need to have a firm regulatory

framework in place to make sure it is not used for ill. And in the meantime, the Congress has

proposed some new, pretty flimsy rules to be included in these proposals to reform policing.

That will also put some some some limitations on facial recognition

into how it is used. So all of a sudden, this debate that's been simmering in the background

has been brought to the front burner. And I thought who better to bring on to talk about it

than Rashida Richardson.

Rashida is the director of policy research at AI Now in New York, an organization that investigates and tries to help guide how AI is being developed, deployed, regulated out in the

wild.

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