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Human oversight done right

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Published: February 15th, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Johannes Walter is a researcher at the Leibniz-Centre for European Economic Research.

Nijeer Parks was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. He was arrested due to an incorrect match produced by a facial recognition algorithm. Being already the third known case of a Black man being wrongfully arrested in the US, these false arrests illustrate the lower accuracy of facial recognition algorithm for Black faces.

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