Facial Recognition AI System in New Orleans Scrutinized

Facial Recognition AI System in New Orleans Scrutinized

Facial Recognition AI System in New Orleans Scrutinized

Civil rights groups are closely watching events unfold in New Orleans as reports surface that a large network of surveillance cameras there are using an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition program.

The police say the software has been beneficial in helping to capture at least one of the prisoners involved in a mass breakout of the Orleans Parish Justice Center on May 16.

ABC reported that the software was still in use, despite an order from New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick that alerts from the system were to be turned off. She wanted to ensure the application of facial recognition software was legal.

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