- By Meenal Sharma
Do AI programs require oversight? A fresh debate has sparked post the release of a report by the US Government Accountability Office. It reveals a total lack of oversight by federal agencies on the use of facial recognition software purchased from third party vendors.
The report in detail analyses the softwares federal agencies use and the datasets they are trained on. Twenty agencies admitted to using facial recognition software in some form without oversight and primarily relied on image databases maintained by the Department of Defence and Department of Homeland Security.
These technologies have been very recently used to identify people on a massive scale, such as protestors from the Black Lives movement last year and the rioters from the Capitol Hill attack this year. It
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Meenal Sharma
I am a journalism undergrad who loves playing basketball and writing about finance and technology. I believe in the power of words.
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