I'm concerned about false positive matches against lists of bad people. There have to be robust procedures to make sure that we don't exclusively trust AI.

That’s not how it works. It doesn’t go through every single known “bad person” in the two seconds that it uses to verify you against a known picture of you.

The person at the security desk can already do that, with better odds of being right.

The person at the security desk doesn’t go through a list of your pictures. It’s a combination of having to have RealID and a computerized list of names.

Again, having your facial recognition or not having facial recognition has absolutely nothing to do with it.