Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
by radarsat1 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:10AM
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> If you reduce the false positive rate by 5% but you facilitate processing 20% more claims (to use some arbitrary numbers) you are still increasing the absolute number of false positives by 14%.
This is a really interesting point that I'll keep in the back of my mind, thanks for that! I hadn't even thought it through in such a concrete manner but I think this really hits the nail on the head.
Technology can address biases but we need to make sure that they are addressed sufficiently, so that we do not end up causing more problems than we solve.