TLDR:

In 2018, a man in a baseball cap stole thousands of dollars worth of watches from a store in central Detroit.

The AI was trained on a database of mostly white people The photos of people of colour in the dataset were generally of worse quality, as default camera settings are often not optimised to capture darker skin tones.

Mr Williams’ photo didn’t come up first. In fact, it was the ninth-most-probable match.

Officers drove to Mr Williams’ house and handcuffed him.

Then they arrested him in front of his five and two-year-old kids…