Author: Paresh Dave, Jeffrey Dastin
Publisher: Reuters
Publication Year: 2022
Summary: The following article discusses how in March, Ukraine’s defense ministry began using a facial recognition software “to uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation, and identify the dead.” The technology was actually offered up for Ukrainian use by the developer, Clearview AI. It was unclear to the public (at the time the article was written) exactly in what circumstances the technology would be used, and there were of course concerns about misidentification, whether that be misidentification of refugees at security checkpoints, or combatants in a conflict. Such errors could have drastic consequences, including unjust arrests or civilian casualties. The problem with this kind of technology, as stated by Albert Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project in New York, is that “once you introduce these systems and the associated databases to a war zone, you have no control over how it will be used and misused.”
