New Documentary “Coded Bias” Explores How Tech Can Be Racist And Sexist : Code Switch : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/02/08/770174171/when-bias-is-coded-into-our-technology
Facial recognition systems from large tech companies often incorrectly classify black women as male — including the likes of Michelle Obama, Serena Williams and Sojourner Truth. That’s according to Joy Buolamwini, whose research caught wide attention in 2018 with “AI, Ain’t I a Woman ?” a spoken-word piece based on her findings at MIT Media Lab. The video, along with the accompanying research paper written with Timnit Gebru of Microsoft Research, prompted many tech companies to reassess their (...)
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