| 来源类型 | Commentary
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Facial Recognition and Fear |
| James Andrew Lewis
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| 发表日期 | 2019-05-23
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 概述 | There is a disconnect between public discourse and actual performance on facial recognition technology. CSIS’s James Lewis explores key concerns and argues that the potential benefits from new tech innovation can outweigh the risks$much like the internet. |
| 摘要 | Facial recognition technology provokes unease, but many of the charges against it do not bear scrutiny. A survey of facial recognition shows that the trend is for this technology to become more accurate and less biased without the need for policy intervention. The disconnect between public discourse and actual performance raises three problems. How do we clarify the discrepancies in the public discussion of facial recognition? How do we construct a better research agenda for policy issues? And how do we avoid imposing policies that are unnecessary or harmful as we create reasonable protections? One way to think about facial recognition (and artificial intelligence in general) is to compare the concern that greets these technologies with the commentary that greeted the commercialization of the internet. The internet created vast opportunities, but it also came with new risks for security and privacy. It can be seen as a mixed blessing, but while cybercrime and other malicious acts cost billions of dollars, the internet generates trillions in revenues. The internet's growth was intentionally unhampered, as the policy of the 1990s was to seize opportunity despite the risks. Overregulation would have stifled growth. Twenty-five years later, the internet is no longer a fragile blossom that needs protection, but if it were commercialized today, it might have met with a very different response, one that slowed or even blocked deployment in the United States. This would have been a disaster. Some say that we now have a chance to avoid all the "errors" that accompanied the internet, and while there is now a strong need for regulation, it must be carefully designed and not based on inaccurate analysis. If we had banned the internet or forced innovators to show that it was impartial or secure before allowing it to go forward, we would still be using dial phones because these kinds of policies kill creativity and experimentation. It is particularly worrisome that many of the concerns expressed over facial recognition and AI are hypothetical. We would want to determine, for example, how many false arrests there has been because of the use of facial recognition technologies. A preliminary search finds only one record of a false arrest. Better data on false arrests would help pinpoint areas of concern. The disparity in views of facial recognition in Asia and in the United States is also worrying. Facial recognition technologies are widely used in Asia, but there has been no outcry about discrimination. If the technology itself was flawed, we would expect to see similar problems across national implementations. We do not know if this reflects a lack of diversity in Asian populations or whether larger social narratives shape some of the concern over facial recognition in the United States. This would be another useful area for research, since understanding the cause of the discrepancy in views is crucial for accurately depicting risk. Americans say they want innovation, but innovation only comes with risk. Risk-free innovation is a non-sequitur. The United States and China believe that they are in a technology race. China sees opportunity and growth when it looks at artificial intelligence, not risks. It would be wrong to ascribe this to China's authoritarianism and mass surveillance. There is a thirst for success that makes Chinese such great entrepreneurs and potentially formidable competitors (should they ever resolve their governance problems). |
| URL | https://www.csis.org/analysis/facial-recognition-and-fear
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| 来源智库 | Center for Strategic and International Studies (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/330106
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James Andrew Lewis. Facial Recognition and Fear. 2019.
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