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.
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Using AI to illustrate the problem does not help the cause.
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.
