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IBM Shuts Down Development of Facial Recognition Technology

In an open letter to Congress on Monday, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced that his company will no longer offer “general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software.” Krishna also offered proposals aimed at improving racial equality in the U.S.

Facial recognition algorithms have frequently been found to exhibit bias. A study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology last year found that facial recognition misidentified people of West and East African and East Asian descent much more frequently than it did those with Eastern European backgrounds.

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