India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.
India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.
Christ, can you imagine being denied food because you’re tired from taking care of an infant? Or because you gained/lost weight over the course of a pregnancy or illness? Or, because it’s AI, for no reason at all. I’d go insane.
It certainly doesn’t help that AI has a lot of problems identifying PoC.