The Australian Federal Police reveals officers have trialled a facial recognition database that contains billions of images scraped from across the internet. (more…)

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The long read: Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots? (more…)

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Emotion recognition technology can hurt people, both by working properly and enabling harassment, and also by not working accurately. Do we really want it? (more…)