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The US Army is creating a nightmarish thermal facial recognition system

The US Army merely took a massive step in opposition to creating killer robots that can see and identify faces in the dark. DEVCOM, the US Army’s corporate research department, ultimate week revealed a pre-print paper documenting the development of a image database for training AI to hold out facial recognition using thermal pictures. Why this problems: Robots […]
The US Army just took a giant step toward developing killer robots that can see and identify faces in the dark. DEVCOM, the US Army’s corporate research department, last week published a pre-print paper documenting the development of an image database for training AI to perform facial recognition using thermal images. Why this matters: Robots […]

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