Vatican joins IBM, Microsoft to call for facial recognition regulation

By Philip Pullella and Jeffrey Dastin on Mar 2, 2020 6:44AM

Vatican joins IBM, Microsoft to call for facial recognition regulation

Pope Francis hits out at information asymmetry.

The Vatican joined forces with tech giants Microsoft and IBM on Friday to promote the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI) and call for regulation of intrusive technologies such as facial recognition. The three said AI should respect privacy, work reliably and without bias, ...

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