Arrested by AI: Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches

Published on January 21, 2025

A Washington Post investigation into police use of facial recognition software found that law enforcement agencies across the nation are using the artificial intelligence tools in a way they were never intended to be used: as a shortcut to finding and arresting suspects without other evidence.

Douglas MacMillan, David Ovalle and Aaron Schaffer (January 13, 2025)

 

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(Illustration by Lucy Naland/The Washington Post; Kaiti Sullivan for The Washington Post)

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