Amazon.com Inc’s facial-recognition software is coming under fire again, this time from a group of artificial intelligence researchers that includes one of the field’s most prominent scientists.
Twenty-six researchers, including Yoshua Bengio, a recent winner of the Turing Award, the industry’s highest honour, called for Amazon to stop selling its Rekognition AI service to police departments in a post on April 3. Bengio was joined by Anima Anandkumar, a former principal scientist at Amazon’s cloud division, and staffers from Google, Microsoft Corp, Facebook Inc and several universities.
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