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02 | Locked up by AI for a crime he didn't commit

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Robert Williams, pictured with his daughters at their home in an outer suburb of Detroit.(Supplied: Robert Williams)

As ChatGPT shows us, AI can do some amazing stuff. But it does some creepy stuff as well. And it's already been responsible for locking up innocent people.

The story of how AI scanned millions of drivers licences and accused Michigan man Robert Wiliams of a crime he didn't commit.

When human biases lead to neural networks going rogue.

Guests:

Margaret Mitchell, researcher and chief ethics scientist, Hugging Face

Michael Wooldridge, professor of computer science, Oxford University

Rumman Chowdhury, Harvard Responsible AI Fellow

Robert Williams, a Michigan man who was arrested and detained after being falsely identified by AI as a suspect in a burglary

Phil Mayor, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union

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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
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