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Author: Rosalie Waelen
Publisher: Montreal AI Ethics Institute
Year: 2023
Summary: Computer Vision (CV) is a subfield of AI focused on visual data. The author explores the presence and references to CV within other data ethics work. Facial recognition is regularly referenced in the general exploration and criticism of ethical AI, but CV is not regularly and specifically considered in ethical frameworks. The author provides additional articles about CV and its relations to sustainability, social control, and human autonomy. Key findings and ethical considerations for CV: CV can influence moral judgment, sense of privacy, and identity. Surveillance allows for an increase in the social power held by governments and the technology industry. Although CV’s energy consumption isn’t directly visible to consumers, environmental impacts should be considered as they are significant and continue to increase.