Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition

Re:Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recogn... by mleland on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:06PM (#17525253)

Are they really only taking this stand because Amazon is looking to get a government contract for its Rekognition software, and Microsoft is trying to deter that?

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Re:Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recogn... by ohthehugemanate on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:35PM (#17526470)

I don't think it's SPECIFICALLY the rekognition contract, but that is the broad stroke. Microsoft has a strong ethics review process for all things AI, and routinely turns down fat projects because they don't pass ethical muster. The contracts that rekognition is designed to bid for, are largely in the grey zone where MS would turn a lot of things down. Government regulation would help lower the cost of Microsoft's ethics policy.

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Re:Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recogn... by sargun on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:45PM (#17526542)

According to who / what?

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Re:Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recogn... by hirsin on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:54PM (#17526615)

Fernando Diaz, for one, has mentioned passing up projects. Principal on the MSFT AI Ethics group (FATE)

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Re:Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recogn... by glitchdout on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:29AM (#17530466)

I didn't find anything on Microsoft turning down projects due to ethical issues.

However, I found a podcast with Fernando Diaz talking about the ethical problems of using AI and experimenting with users without their knowledge, which is commendable.

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Re:Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recogn... by blihp on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:20PM (#17525374)

Most likely. You'll rarely see a corporation encourage the government to do anything unless it helps them or hurts their competition.

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