"An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents beneath their masks - a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance.Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, estimates he and a group of volunteers have publicly identified at least 20 ICE officials recorded wearing masks during arrests. He told POLITICO his experts are "able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible.""
"While I'd like to believe regular people would be more careful and conscientious of this tech's limitations when using it, there's no reason to believe they won't be just as bad as cops, who continue to ignore false positives (and false arrests) because the tech makes it easier to arrest people, even if it's not all that great at actually identifying people."
An activist began using artificial intelligence to unmask Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents filmed wearing masks during arrests. The activist and volunteers claim to have publicly identified at least 20 masked ICE officials and assert their experts can reconstruct faces when 35 percent or more of the face is visible. Critics question the 35 percent threshold and warn that such reconstructions are unreliable. Concerns arise about deployment of the technique by police and private citizens, including the risk of false positives and wrongful arrests. ICE and some officials justify mask use for officer safety, while some lawmakers condemn online identification efforts.
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