National Academies Report on Facial Recognition Technologies

Today the US National Academies released a new report titled “Facial Recognition: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects and Governance” which takes a wide-ranging look at various kinds of facial recognition applications. The report can be downloaded without charge at

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27397/facial-recognition-technology-current-capabilities-future-prospects-and-governance

Earlier today there was an hour-long report release event; the video from this can be found at

https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/41765_01-2024_facial-recognition-current-capabilities-future-prospects-and-governance-report-release-webinar

and general background on the project leading to the report can be found at

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/facial-recognition-current-capabilities-future-prospects-and-governance

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI