Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Shaun Moore (@shaunpmoore) the founder and CEO of TrueFace, the 500Startups funded computer vision and facial recognition startup focused on making the world safer and smarter by transforming cameras into data.Prior to TrueFace, Shaun co-founded two startups in the content and mobile apps space and he's spoken frequently on the possibilities and possible pitfalls of facial recognition and AI.

Full episode ---- https://disruptors.fm/111-what-minority-report-got-right-and-wrong-and-the-future-of-the-surveillance-state-shaun-moore-of-trueface

Today we discuss:

- The risk and reward of the social credit system
- What Minority Report got right, and wrong
- Why Shaun's not too worried about mass government surveillance
- The reason Matt's worried about the slippery slope of safety
- Which monopoly scares Shaun the most
- How society should think about regulating facial recognition
- Ways to improve public discourse
- How facial recognition can hugely decrease crime
- Why it's really freaking important who you take money from as a startup
- How hard it is for an entrepreneur to handle taxes and health insurance
- Why Shaun is super excited about moving beyond meat


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