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An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research fed on personal images.

Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities, raising questions about the tech industry’s responsibility.

In their spare time, two Silicon Valley developers aided conservationists in developing artificial intelligence to help keep track of individual bears.

The facial recognition start-up violated the privacy of Illinois residents by collecting their images without their consent, the civil liberties group says in a new lawsuit.

A district in New York has adopted the technology in the name of safety. Opponents cite privacy and bias concerns.

Records from Florida, where law enforcement has long used the controversial technology, offer an inside look at its risks and rewards.

Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.

A tank that drives itself. A drone that picks its own targets. A machine gun with facial-recognition software. Sound like science fiction? Weapons powered by artificial intelligence are already here.

As a government agency seeks approval of a facial recognition system, it says one use for it could be verifying the age of people who want to view pornography online.

In blacklisting surveillance companies, the United States is the first major government to punish China for its crackdown on Muslims.

Facial recognition technology is drawing scrutiny in a country more accustomed to surveillance than any other Western democracy.

Large databases, built with images from social networks and dating services, contain millions of pictures of people’s faces. Some are shared worldwide.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have analyzed millions of drivers’ photos without their knowledge, newly released documents show.