IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announces the company is getting out of the facial recognition business, while calling on Congress to enact reforms to advance racial justice and combat systemic racism.
IBM decided to shut down its facial recognition products and announce its decision as the death of George Floyd brought the topic of police reform and racial inequity into the forefront of the national conversation, a person familiar with the situation told CNBC. It follows testimony from Joy Buolamwini, founder of Algorithmic Justice League, before Congress last year, about her research for MIT into the bias she found in facial recognition software.
− Black Caucus Chair Rep. Karen Bass , House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jerry Nadler , Sen. Corey Booker , Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries . Krishna also called on the Congressmen to consider legislation such as the Walter Scott Notification Act, sponsored by Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, which would require states receiving federal funding to disclose more details around the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers to the Department of Justice.
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