Learning to artificial intelligence to forget is what the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnics (CSEM) recently developed in Neuchâtel. This is a new AI training method which allows it to ensure the tasks of population surveillance, while excluding physical or biological characteristics to identify a person.
For example, an artificial intelligence that must learn to detect violence will be “nourished” with data and in particular videos. If on these images parade white men aged 35, AI could wrongly consider these characteristics as part of violence. The artificial intelligence model developed at the CSEM makes it possible to delete this information deemed not relevant for the mission that has been entrusted to AI.
Another example, the CSEM is currently developing a system that allows you to capture a person’s heartbeat thanks to a camera. Employees of the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnics serve as a guinea pig for the development of this application, that is to say a population with in particular an age group and a well -defined ethnicity. “If we take this medical application and we want to put it in Africa, for example, it will not work,” explains Nadim Maamari, the head of the Department of the on -board artificial intelligence system. With the AI model that forgets biometric data, including age and ethnicity, this medical application could work anywhere.
Artificial intelligence trained to forget the biometric parameters of individuals can be deployed “in complete safety in sectors such as health, public security, urban mobility and consumer electronics”, assures the CSEM.
There are still uncertainties concerning the ability of an AI to forget biometric data. “It is the engineer who is behind the office who defined what must be forgotten. Potentially, there are other data which is hidden in and which we have not realized, “concedes Nadim Maamari.
For the moment, the system developed by the CSEM is not yet used on the ground. The Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnics is looking for people to work with it. /CWI
