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Tristan Greene @ The Next Web · 09/03/2021 14:07 EDT

Why are so many scummy, scammy AI companies thriving?

After about the fifth or sixth time you read an article about a Black man being wrongfully arrested due to faulty facial recognition AI, you start to wonder how nobody seems to be doing anything to stop this from happening. Sure, whenever something goes wrong, the company behind the software is always working to improve results and the law enforcement agency using the software is always reviewing procedures to ensure this doesn’t happen again. But it does. It seems like a day doesn’t go by where a law enfor

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