Self-driving cars are ‘more likely’ to hit and kill non-white pedestrians
Last month, a major police force piloting the use of AI in frontline policing used a real-world surveillance video to test leading facial recognition technologies. In the 90-second film, shot in the dimly-lit interior of an apartment block close to the scene of a serious crime, a partially-obscured young black man loitered in view before exiting past the camera. As he passed the lens, the shadowy hallway and pixels of his face merged.