Trenton Ford
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Commentary
It’s time to address facial recognition, the most troubling law enforcement AI tool
By: Trenton Ford
Appeared In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Amid the push for police reform, Ford writes that one trend is in urgent need of overhaul: police departments’ expanding use of artificial intelligence, namely facial recognition, to aid crime fighting.
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Commentary
Is your face gay? Conservative? Criminal? AI researchers are asking the wrong questions
By: Trenton Ford
Appeared In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Ford discusses how troublingly, some modern AI applications are delving into physiognomy, a set of pseudoscientific ideas that first appeared thousands of years ago and purport to link facial attributes to aspects of human character.
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Commentary
Virtual Reality has arrived, but are humans ready for it?
By: Trenton Ford
Appeared In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Ford writes that nearly a century after author Stanley Weinbaum managed a conceptualization of virtual reality eerily similar to modern-day notions, we’re finally in a position where the questions Weinbaum raised aren’t futuristic science fiction.