Volume 43 Staff Member Jems Guirguis interviews Omer Tene, a Partner at Goodwin Procter in a wide-ranging discussion of the challenges posed by AI and facial recognition.

Recommended Readings:

Thaddeus L. Johnson & Natasha N. Johnson, Police Facial Recognition Technology Can’t Tell Black People Apart: AI-powered facial recognition will lead to increased racial profiling, Scientific American (May 18, 2023), https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-recognition-technology-cant-tell-black-people-apart/. 

Sarah Thamer, New AI security measure at Mall of America raises concerns for some, MPR News (July 9, 2024), https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/07/09/new-ai-security-measure-at-mall-of-america-raises-concerns-for-some. 

Lisa Marshall, New Facial-recognition Airport Screenings are Raising Concerns, Colorado.Edu (July 11, 2023), https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/07/11/why-new-facial-recognition-airport-screenings-are-raising-concerns. 

Magali Gruet, Just Common Sense’: USC researchers find bias in up to 38.6% of ‘facts’ used by AI, USC Viterbi School of Engineering (May 26, 2022), https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2022/05/thats-just-common-sense-usc-researchers-find-bias-in-up-to-38-6-of-facts-used-by-ai/https://nonprofitquarterly.org/facial-recognition-technologys-enduring-threat-to-civil-liberties/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw99e4BhDiARIsAISE7P_5dw8Cs4hQofIVTZ4o9VBCmflAWvsxgPomllbq0xi4wX3MwoQ_pWIaAremEALw_wcB. 

Sara Merken,  AI strikes ‘unique’ deal to end privacy class action, Reuters (June 13, 2024),  https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/clearview-ai-strikes-unique-deal-end-privacy-class-action-2024-06-13/. 

Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, A Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy (2024)