This is an IHeart podcast.

Are there any pictures of you online?

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

So if your accuser is this algorithm,

but you're not even being told that it was used,

let alone given any of the details about how it works.

Listen to Kill Switch on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcast.

We love learning about this extraordinary universe.

And we love sharing what we've learned.

And on our podcast, Daniel and Kelly's extraordinary universe, that's what we're going to do.

I'm Daniel.

I'm a particle physicist, and I think our universe is absolutely extraordinary.

I'm Kelly Weiner-Smith.

I study parasites, and there's just endless things about this universe that I find fascinating.

Basically, we're both nerds.

Each Tuesday and Thursday, we take an hour-long dive into some science topic.

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