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A scary proposal to use facial recognition and AI by an Indian state has experts fuming

23 Jan 2021, 17:49

A scary proposal to use facial recognition and AI by an Indian state has experts fuming

The Lucknow police are installing cameras with facial recognition technology, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), in prominent harassment hotspots.
The cameras will gauge whether a woman is in distress based on her facial expression and send an alert to the police.
Anita Gurumurthy, founding member and executive director of IT for Change, called the idea “both absurd and undemocratic.”

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