Fri. 12/07 - Microsoft Calls for Regulation of AI

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🗓️ 7 December 2018

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, December 7th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.3	Today Microsoft calls for regulation of facial recognition AI.
0:14.4	The crypto market crash is starting to claim casualties.
0:18.0	Reddit is quietly doing very well, thank you very much,
0:21.8	and of course the weekend long read suggestions here's what you missed
0:25.6	today in the world of tech. Google recently joined this movement, but Microsoft has been banging the drum on this for a while.
0:38.0	Banging the drum about the need to regulate some forms of AI development and research. In a speech at the Brookings
0:45.2	Institution yesterday, Microsoft President Brad Smith specifically called out
0:50.4	facial recognition tech as being problematic.
0:54.4	Smith said that all tech companies
0:56.9	have to balance social responsibility and profit all the time,
1:00.4	but facial recognition has the potential
1:02.1	to fundamentally up and the balance of the relationship
1:05.2	between citizens and the state.
1:07.0	Quote, we believe that the only way to protect against this race to the bottom is to build
1:12.2	a floor of responsibility that supports healthy market
1:15.3	competition, Smith said.
1:17.2	We must ensure that the year 2024 doesn't look like a page from the novel 1984.
1:22.9	As a society, we need legislation
1:24.7	that will put impartial testing groups
1:26.6	like Consumer Reports and their counterparts
1:29.0	in a position where they can test facial recognition services
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