Fears that India’s scaling up of AI will reproduce casteist bias, discrimination against minorities

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After communal clashes in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area last year, police said they used facial recognition technology to identify and arrest dozens of men, the second such instance after a more violent riot in the Indian capital in 2020. In both cases, most of those charged were Muslim, leading human rights groups and tech experts to criticise India’s use of the AI-based technology to target poor, minority and marginalised groups in Delhi and elsewhere in the country. As India rolls out AI tools that authorities say will increase efficiency and improve access, tech experts fear the lack of an official policy...