Amazon has come under fire before for Rekognition, the facial recognition technology that the company has allowed police to use and which has led to concerns the company is essentially supporting the surveillance state. The technology has also come under scrutiny in the past for a variety of other reasons, such as the fact that the system could be flawed in a way that misidentifies minorities, for example.
Now, leading artificial intelligence researchers from across the technology and academic spectrum — including from Amazon rivals, like Google, Microsoft and Facebook — have published an open letter via Medium essentially scolding Amazon over selling the tech to police. And, of course, the letter asks the company to stop.
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