AI Ethics: Analyzing the Advantages and Disadvantages of FR Technology

This assignment analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of Facial Recognition (FR) technology within the context of artificial intelligence ethics. It examines the benefits, such as its use in law enforcement for crime solving, security enhancement, and biometric scanning in the medical sector. However, the assignment also highlights significant drawbacks, including accuracy issues for non-white individuals, potential misuse of collected data by various agencies, the storage of data on reformed individuals, and major ethical concerns such as privacy violations, restriction of democratic freedoms, and discrimination. The analysis references ethical issues related to big data analytics and algorithms, emphasizing the importance of a thorough evaluation of FR technology's impact on society and individual rights. The assignment underscores the need for critical assessment of FR technology’s deployment and ethical implications, considering its rapid advancement and widespread application in various sectors.

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Business Ethics in FR Technology
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Facial Recognition Technology
Facial recognition technology has no doubt been one of the greatest inventions of Woodrow
Bledsoe due to its vast benefits in several sectors. This technology that has been incorporated with
artificial intelligence has however been subject to criticism leading to its abolishment in areas like San
Francisco while other countries such as China continue to explore its use in their daily lives. Let us look
at some of the advantages and disadvantage of this technology.
Facial recognition technology has been integrated into government agencies and law
enforcement agencies, they have thus been effective in arresting criminals by searching for their faces
within the country. It has also helped in apprehending criminals who manage to escape prisons planning
to engage in dangerous activities.
Facial recognition technology has enforced security by enforcing double authentication. It has
enabled law enforcement agencies to find missing persons by using surveillance systems to track their
latest movements. In the medical sector biometric scanning is an invention from facial recognition
technology.
While these benefits seem promising for a brighter future some of the challenges of these
technology are: lack of accuracy for non-white individuals where the facial recognition has produced a
35% error rate for non-white. There has been abuse of the information collected by advertising
agencies, government agencies and other commercial firms that analyses the big data received in
coming up with policies and certain prejudices. Facial recognition has also stored faces of reformed
individuals among former criminals making them suspected criminals despite their innocence.
Facial recognition has had to major negative impacts which are invasion of privacy, restricted
democratic freedom and discrimination. These technology has interfered with individual’s autonomy of
making decision thus violating privacy, it has discriminated specific racial individuals due to its

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inaccuracy and finally it has restricted the democratic freedom of citizens in fear of being monitored by
the government.

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Reference
How Ethical Is Facial Recognition Technology? 6/11/2019
Benefit vs. risk of facial recognition technology 6/11/2019
Facial recognition: is the technology taking away your identity? 6/11/2019

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