negatives

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In policing, an AI system must balance false positives, where the system flags a threat that does not exist, and false negatives, where it fails to detect a real danger.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

In a note to clients late on Wednesday, Truist’s Will Stein listed Musk’s “HW3 capitulation” as one of the negatives coming out of the Tesla call.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

"There are way more positives than negatives and I think if we give up on this opportunity, if we let it slip, then we're failing the future generation."

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Since 2019, Microsoft's Silica project has been trying to encode data on glass plates, in a throwback to the early days of photography, when negatives were also stored on glass.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

She pulled out her negatives and peered down through a magnifying glass.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai