When algorithms are racist

I asked about the code that they used and it turned out we’d used the same open-source code for face detection – this is where I started to get a sense that unconscious bias might feed into the technology that we create. But again I assumed people would fix this.

When algorithms are racist

When Joy Buolamwini found that a robot recognised her face better when she wore a white mask, she knew a problem needed fixing

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