Microsoft's president says the government needs to step up regulation of face recognition technology

Microsoft, Amazon and Google have all been ensnared in issues related to government adoption of artificial intelligence software. Amid increasing scrutiny around the government's use of artificial intelligence software, Microsoft MSFT said on Friday that it wants to see more regulation, specifically regarding technology that recognizes faces. "If there are concerns about how a technology will be deployed more broadly across society, the only way to regulate this broad use is for the government to do so," Brad Smith, Microsoft's president and chief legal officer, wrote in a blog post .