09/21/2026
A man in St. Louis spent 16 months in jail because of a facial recognition mismatch. The judge said it wasn’t even close.
How does a mistake like that happen? Leg. Judah Holstein has an answer.
“AI is fed by human learning. And as a result, it has implicit bias.”
Leg. Judah Holstein (Eastchester, New Rochelle, Tuckahoe) sponsored Westchester County’s deepfake law, working with the DA’s office and county attorneys. Now he’s taking a close look at facial recognition at the county’s Real Time Crime Center.
He has tracked technology from analog to digital, and he knows where it goes wrong.
We got into how these errors happen and how he’s thinking about AI going forward.
Watch the full conversation tomorrow on Evolution Now with Flora White.
📺 Greenburgh Public TV, Channel 75
💻 Streaming on YouTube. Link in bio.