Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel says US is lagging China in facial recognition tech

The introduction of artificial intelligence into everyday life is raising new concerns over how these revolutionary new technologies will be used to help or potentially hurt humanity. Bloomberg News reported that France is set to become the first European country to implement facial recognition technology to create a digital identity for its citizens. In the summer of 2018, 2 million people took to the streets of Hong Kong to protest against authoritarian Chinese rule. The demonstrators knocked down a tower equipped with facial recognition software that used A.I. cameras to track and identify anyone participating in the protest. In 2019, San Francisco became the first big American city to ban the use of facial recognition technology.