IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/zbw/wzbmtn/327805.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Facing the Truth: New follies in artificial intelligence

Author

Listed:
  • Skarpelis, A.K.M.

Abstract

Every human being has a comparatively unique appearance – and can be identified by a picture or recording of them. Automated facial recognition, too, makes use of this circumstance. Because governments and corporations increasingly use these technologies, critics have been vocal about their ethical and political implications. Less frequent are critiques of the technical aspects of facial recognition: Photography still gets a benefit of doubt as a representation of reality. Not only is this confidence no longer warranted in the age of ubiquitous photo manipulation. We also overlook that in artificial intelligence techniques of “racial recognition” have been developed, which create new ethnic categories. These are no less dubious than earlier 19th and 20th century ones.

Suggested Citation

  • Skarpelis, A.K.M., 2022. "Facing the Truth: New follies in artificial intelligence," WZB-Mitteilungen: Quartalsheft für Sozialforschung, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, issue 178 (4/22.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:wzbmtn:327805
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/327805/1/f-25205_repo.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:wzbmtn:327805. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/wzbbbde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.