The ethics of face recognition

For a deep dive into the current state of AI and where we might be headed in coming years, check out our free ebook "What is Artificial Intelligence," by Mike Loukides and Ben Lorica. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on the ethics of artificial intelligence. Since then, we've been presented with an excellent example to reflect on: the use of face recognition to identify people likely to commit crimes. In my post, I said that we need to discuss what kind of society we want to build. I'm reasonably confident that, even under the worst societal conditions, we don't want a society where you can be imprisoned because your eyes are set too closely together.