Microsoft is urging governments to enact legislation next year that requires facial-recognition technology to be independently tested to ensure accuracy, prevent unfair bias and protect individuals' rights.
"The facial recognition genie, so to speak, is just emerging from the bottle," Microsoft chief counsel Brad Smith wrote in a blog post published Thursday. "Unless we act, we risk waking up five years from now to find that facial recognition services have spread in ways that exacerbate societal issues. By that time, these challenges will be much more difficult to bottle back up."
Smith advocated for human review of facial recognition results rather than leaving them to computers.
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