亚马逊最近因向**和执法机构许可其备受争议的Rekognition系统（一款功能强大的面部识别软件）而遭到抨击，最新的进展是，亚马逊在夏天与美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）达成了一项使用Rekognion的协议。现在，亚马逊员工正在盘问该公司在销售此类技术方面的领导地位，特别是当它可以用来跟踪人类并将他们送回海外潜在危险的环境时。

亚马逊网络服务首席执行官安德鲁·贾西（Andrew Jassy）在今天的全体员工会议上告诉员工，“我们对亚马逊Rekognion在执法和非执法领域为我们的各种规模和各种行业的客户提供的价值感到非常高兴和强烈，一名亚马逊员工在匿名的情况下与Verge交谈，并提供了部分谈话记录。今天下午早些时候，Gizmodo首先报道了Jassy的评论。

亚马逊没有立即发表评论。

亚马逊的云计算部门AWS负责为Rekognition提供电力，目前佛罗里达州和俄勒冈州的警察部门正在使用Rekognition。亚马逊首席执行官杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）邀请贾西专门回答一个关于Rekognition和可能与ICE等组织签订的**合同的问题。Jassy接着说，“你不想摆脱这项技术”，但指出违反AWS的服务条款或侵犯宪法权利将迫使亚马逊禁止使用其服务。然而，他确实指出，该公司认为“**有责任帮助明确规定技术法规的指导方针。”

在亚马逊参与**合同和Rekognion的同时，研究证明该系统在准确性和固有种族偏见方面都存在严重缺陷。美国公民自由联盟（American Civil Liberties Union）在今年夏天对Rekognion进行了测试，发现该系统从25000张照片的数据库中错误识别了28名国会议员(亚马逊在其研究中反驳了美国公民自由联盟的发现，其深度学习和人工智能总经理马特·伍德（Matt Wood）在7月份的一篇博客文章中说，亚马逊使用Rekognition API测试的数据生成的置信率为80%，远低于其建议的执法比赛置信率99%。）

该公司还拒绝参与美国国家标准与技术研究所（National Institute of Standards and Technology）开展的一项关于算法偏见的综合研究，该研究旨在确定种族和性别偏见何时可能影响人脸识别算法的错误率。

亚马逊并不是唯一一家在产品如何销售给美国**以及如何被美国**使用的问题上遭遇自身员工**的科技巨头。谷歌领导层今年因参与五角大楼无人驾驶飞机项目Maven而面临巨大的反弹，迫使该公司宣布明年不再续约，并公布一套关于人工智能使用和产品开发的道德准则。谷歌还因计划在中国市场推出符合**审查政策的新闻和搜索产品而受到抨击。

以下是全体人员会议交流的完整记录：

Q: What is being done in resp***e to the concerns voiced by both Amazon employees and civil rights groups regarding Amazon selling facial recognition technology to government and police organizati***, including ICE?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: Good. Andy, do you want to take that one?

AWS CEO Andrew Jassy: Thank you, so we’re referring to Amazon Rekognition, which is AWS’ deep learning image recognition, facial recognition, video recognition service and, you know, with over five hundred thousand employees like we have at Amazon, I think we’re going to have people who have opini*** that are very wide-ranging, which is great. But we feel really great and really strongly about the value that Amazon Rekognition is providing our customers of all sizes and all types of industries in law enforcement and out of law enforcement.

You see it in the value people are actually getting even after just about a year, year and a half of the service, where Rekognition is actively been used to help stop human trafficking, to reunite missing kids with parents for educational applicati***, for security and multi-factor authentication to prevent theft.

There’s a lot of value being enjoyed from Amazon Rekognition. Now now, of course, with any kind of technology, you have to make sure that it’s being used resp***ibly, and that’s true with new and existing technology. Just think about all the evil that could be done with computers or servers and has been done, and you think about what a different place our world would be if we didn’t know how people have computers.

So you don’t want to get rid of that technology. You want to make sure that people use the technology resp***ibly, and we have a set of terms and services in AWS. And with all our services, including Rekognition, where if people violate those terms of services and don’t use them resp***ibly, they won’t be able to use our services any longer. In fact, if we find the people are violating folks c***titutional rights, they won’t be able to use the services. I also think, by the way, in a democracy is also often the role in the resp***ibility of the government to help specify what the guidelines of regulati*** should be about technology. And, if and when that happens, we will abide by those as well. Thank you.

美国东部时间11月8日晚上7:16更新：增加了有关亚马逊Rekognion系统缺陷研究的信息。

更正：本文的早期版本错误地指出，BuzzFeed首先报告了亚马逊全体员工会议的细节。这是不正确的；Gizmodo首先发布了这条消息。