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Ethical views on face recognition

Published: September 24, 2020

In an interview on face recognition in the magazine Forskning & Framsteg, Amanda Lagerkvist, professor at Uppsala University and project leader in WASP-HS, emphasises the ethical issues.

She says (in Swedish): “Ansiktet, liksom kroppen och rösten, är centrum för vår unika person och vårt värde. Jag är orolig för att biometrisk AI kan förändra vår syn på människovärdet.”

Amanda Lagerkvist is the project leader of the WASP-HS project “BioMe: Existential challenges and ethical imperatives of biometric AI in everyday lifeworlds“.

Read the full story in Forskning & Framsteg.

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