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A $899 AI Litter Box Couldn't Tell Two Very Different Cats Apart
Whisker's Litter-Robot 5 Pro promises AI health tracking and facial recognition for your cats. After six months of testing, the facial recognition failed, the waste sensor misfired, and one cat mysteriously lost two pounds overnight.
Sainsbury's pauses face-scanning AI after it wrongly accused a shopper of theft
Matt Arnold, 46, was ejected from a Sainsbury's store after its facial-recognition system misidentified him as a shoplifter. The supermarket has now paused the technology at that location while it investigates.
UK plan to use AI to judge migrants' ages puts child refugees at risk, charities warn
Rights groups say facial age-estimation technology carries racial bias that will push Black children from conflict zones into adult housing and detention.
Smart lamp-posts that recognise your face: should you be worried?
A Warwickshire company is fitting street lights with AI cameras, solar panels and number-plate readers. Civil liberties groups say Britain is sleepwalking into a surveillance network nobody voted for.
Clothes That Confuse Cameras: The Fashion Trend Born From Facial Recognition Fears
A new wave of designers is weaving patterns into jackets and tops that are built to trip up facial recognition software. Could anti-surveillance fashion go mainstream?
AI Is Moving Into the Heart of American Policing, and Almost Nobody Is Watching
From facial-recognition cameras to AI systems that decide where officers go next, a booming industry is selling police departments tools that experts warn could make accountability much harder.