Inclusion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Politics AI – Medium

From relentless automation to algorithmic bias and human rights abuses, artificial intelligence (AI) has a laundry list of well-known potential costs and risks that do not bode well for the future of inclusion. Take Amazon's recent foray into mass surveillance, for example. Designed by Amazon Web Services, Amazon Rekognition is a deep learning AI that makes it easier for businesses to add image and video analysis to their applications. Common use cases include searchable image and video libraries, face-based user verification, and unsafe content detection. But documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California show that Amazon is now supplying its facial recognition technology to governments and law enforcement agencies, as well. Last month, a coalition of over 70 civil liberties and human rights organizations signed a letter that calls on Amazon to stop powering the government's surveillance infrastructure.