AI年龄验证难防绕过且误判弱势群体，远不如政府身份证验证可靠。
The Folly of AI for Age Verification
- 类比人脸识别与远程监考系统，证明AI年龄验证存在顽固偏差。
- 现有技术无法克服模型与硬件限制，误判率高于身份证验证。
- 适合关注算法公平性与政策制定的研究者参考。
未来不久，政府机构将被要求批准企业使用AI进行年龄验证。若允许，该系统将极易被绕过，且对少数族裔和低收入用户造成严重误判。这一问题可预见，因类似系统（如面部识别与远程监考软件）历经多年努力仍存在类似缺陷。这些偏差源于AI模型自身及运行硬件的技术局限，短期内难以解决，其成本远低于基于政府身份证的年龄验证方式。因此，在近期内部署AI年龄验证系统实属不智。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In the near future a governmental body will be asked to allow companies to use AI for age verification. If they allow it the resulting system will both be easily circumvented and disproportionately misclassify minorities and low socioeconomic status users. This is predictable by showing that other very similar systems (facial recognition and remote proctoring software) have similar issues despite years of efforts to mitigate their biases. These biases are due to technical limitations both of the AI models themselves and the physical hardware they are running on that will be difficult to overcome below the cost of government ID-based age verification. Thus in, the near future, deploying an AI system for age verification is folly.
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