Gaby Del Valle
Clearview AI’s founder is reportedly obsessed with eugenics.
Hoan Ton-That, the founder and former CEO of Clearview AI, is fixated on “race, IQ, and hierarchy” and “solicited input from eugenicists and right-wing extremists” to build his facial recognition system, Mother Jones reports.
Ton-That, who has had a long history with the far right, reportedly wanted to “totally hire” Danish race scientist Emil Kirkegaard. This part stuck out to me:
Ton-That was fascinated by eugenics and admired the field’s founder, Francis Galton, who inspired Nazi “racial hygiene” programs. After digesting a letter by Galton that argued for Chinese immigrants to move to Africa and supplant the “inferior” Black race, Ton-That declared in an email that Galton was a “true prophet.”
