If nothing else, I hope this report provides a reminder that the deep problems posed by the use the use of biometric tech never went away, and won't go away without the active intervention of government.
(9/9)

-- clear, concrete recommendations for how a government concerned about public safety, civil liberties and the rule of law might replace our fragmented, inadequate protections with a comprehensive, future-poof approach to managing this powerful technology.
(8/9)

-- an indispensable, up-to-date review of the current state of biometrics and its regulation in the UK; and
(7/9)

I'm therefore delighted that the Ada Lovelace Institute, and my colleagues @nualapolo.bsky.social and ‪@mbirtwistle.bsky.social‬ have published An Eye On The Future,
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/an-ey...
which provides:
(6/9)

And around the world, increasingly authoritarian political tendencies should remind us of the power biometric tools can give governments (and corporations) over citizens, and the dangers of granting that power unconditionally. (5/9)

Meanwhile, private sector use of biometric categorisation technologies on members of the public, which exists in a de facto regulatory vacuum, has expanded invisibly but dramatically. (4/9)

In the UK, facial recognition is quietly being rolled out by the police, with pilots having given way to full-scale operational deployments and the once limited parameters for its use threatening to expand dramatically. (3/9)

Though they no longer dominate the news, biometric technologies like facial recognition, emotion prediction, & gait analysis, and the concerns they prompted -around ubiquitous surveillance, the categorisation of people, & democratic chilling -have only become more relevant. (2/9)

Our briefing paper represents out first foray into this topic (to be followed over the course of the year with far more detail), setting out how Advanced AI Assistants work and the particular challenges they pose policymakers. (4/4)

They could also exert a huge amount of influence over how people act on, think about & relate to the world, they would require us to place a lot of trust in the hands of AI systems & their developers.

(Not to mention questions about the impact of these things on people's mental wellbeing)
(3/4)

AAIAs present a combination of ease of use & general usefulness that could make them v popular amongst the general public. (2/4)

It's Bart versus Australia.