{"id":171252,"date":"2023-09-04T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/racially-biased-ai-can-lead-to-false-arrests-warns-expert"},"modified":"2023-09-04T03:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T08:26:00","slug":"racially-biased-ai-can-lead-to-false-arrests-warns-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/racially-biased-ai-can-lead-to-false-arrests-warns-expert","title":{"rendered":"Racially biased AI can lead to false arrests, warns expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/racially-biased-ai-can-lead-to-false-arrests-warns-expert2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Racially biased artificial intelligence (AI) is not only misleading, it can be right down detrimental, destroying people\u2019s lives. This is a warning University of Alberta Faculty of Law assistant professor Dr. Gideon Christian issued in <a href=\"https:\/\/ucalgary.ca\/news\/law-professor-explores-racial-bias-implications-facial-recognition-technology\" title=\"a press release\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">a press release<\/a> by the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Christian is most notably the recipient of a $50,000 Office of the Privacy Commissioner Contributions Program grant for a research project called Mitigating Race, Gender and Privacy Impacts of AI Facial Recognition Technology. The initiative seeks to study race issues in AI-based facial recognition technology in Canada. Christian is considered an expert on AI and the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is this false notion that technology unlike humans is not biased. That\u2019s not accurate,\u201d said Christian, PhD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racially biased artificial intelligence (AI) is not only misleading, it can be right down detrimental, destroying people\u2019s lives. This is a warning University of Alberta Faculty of Law assistant professor Dr. Gideon Christian issued in a press release by the institution. Christian is most notably the recipient of a $50,000 Office of the Privacy Commissioner [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171252","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}