Guest column: Fargo's AI pickle

Guest column: Fargo's AI pickle

Fargo’s in an AI pickle. Face it, people, the wrongful arrest and incarceration of a Tennessee woman named Angela Lipps, primarily on the strength of AI facial recognition, undercut our elevated opinion of our fine city. Not simply ashamed, we’re appalled. What sort of Fargoan imprisons a woman for six months without checking out her story? What sort of Fargoan releases someone from custody—on Christmas Eve—who doesn’t have a winter coat or mone…