“We believe this results from factors that include the lack of Black faces in the algorithms’ training data sets, a belief that these programs are infallible and a tendency of officers’ own biases to magnify these issues,” the researchers wrote in an op-ed for Scientific American.
The research also demonstrated that Black people are overrepresented in databases of mugshots, and that skews AI.
Hawkinson, K. (2023, August 6). In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/in-every-reported-false-arrests-based-on-facial-recognition-that-person-has-been-black-2023-8