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How do you measure positive and negative societal impact of this technology?

I find mobile phone face unlock so useful, giving every citizen the power to use face recognition could be better than a few people, robots that identify someone and give them lifesaving medication are great (but the opposite, robot assassin can also be created). I guess it comes down to good people building good tools. Humans are generally kind and empathetic

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It'll be a net-positive for things like that, passports might be rendered useless in the future since they're already using facial recognition at Customs. It can help solve crimes given it can recognize faces using CCTV footage amongst other things.

There is a certain level of distrust since it can be abused and people think it will lead to a dystopian police state.

Yet also short sighted hairless apes with all the genetic programming that comes with, for better AND for worse.

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