Dexter Thomas
Appearances
Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: William A. Mitchell: Food Inventor
You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Are there any pictures of you online? Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it. Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts. I'm Dexter Thomas, host of Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.
Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: William A. Mitchell: Food Inventor
Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect. In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars. So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works.
Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: William A. Mitchell: Food Inventor
Listen to Kill Switch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Stuff You Should Know
Ba-Gawk! How Peacocks Work
That database is now being used by police departments all across the country to match criminal suspect photos. And sometimes...
Stuff You Should Know
Ba-Gawk! How Peacocks Work
This is not Minority Report. This is happening right now. People are getting arrested and doing actual time in jail after being picked out by a computer. I'm Dexter Thomas, host of Killswitch, where every Wednesday we explain the right now of living in the future. You can turn off the computer, but do not let the computer turn you off.
Stuff You Should Know
Ba-Gawk! How Peacocks Work
Listen to Killswitch in the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Stuff You Should Know
Ba-Gawk! How Peacocks Work
That database is now being used by police departments all across the country to match criminal suspect photos. And sometimes...
Stuff You Should Know
Ba-Gawk! How Peacocks Work
This is happening right now. People are getting arrested and doing actual time in jail after being picked out by a computer. I'm Dexter Thomas, host of Kill Switch, where every Wednesday we explain the right now of living in the future. You can turn off the computer, but do not let the computer turn you off.
Stuff You Should Know
Ba-Gawk! How Peacocks Work
Listen to Kill Switch in the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.