{"id":116136,"date":"2020-11-20T23:06:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-ethical-questions-that-haunt-facial-recognition-research"},"modified":"2020-11-20T23:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:06:41","slug":"the-ethical-questions-that-haunt-facial-recognition-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-ethical-questions-that-haunt-facial-recognition-research","title":{"rendered":"The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ethical-questions-that-haunt-facial-recognition-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, <i>Nature<\/i> asked 480 researchers around the world who work in facial recognition, computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) for their views on thorny ethical questions about facial-recognition research. The results of this first-of-a-kind survey suggest that some scientists are concerned about the ethics of work in this field \u2014 but others still don\u2019t see academic studies as problematic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Journals and researchers are under fire for controversial studies using this technology. And a <i>Nature<\/i> survey reveals that many researchers in this field think there is a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Nature asked 480 researchers around the world who work in facial recognition, computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) for their views on thorny ethical questions about facial-recognition research. The results of this first-of-a-kind survey suggest that some scientists are concerned about the ethics of work in this field \u2014 but others still don\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}