kill switch

could you be arrested by a computer?


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Welcome to our first episode of kill switch, where we’re diving right into the deep end – investigating how police departments are implementing AI technology. Can AI facial recognition be a magical solution to the unreliability of witness identification? Or is it just making things worse? Dexter talks to Douglas MacMillan, a reporter from the Washington Post, who has been tracking the spread of the technology, and where it seems to (repeatedly) break down.

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Read: Doug’s article, Arrested by AI

Listen: Post Reports podcast episode, Arrested by AI

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