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Amazon Schooled on AI Facial Technology By Turing Award Winner

Amazon’s facial-recognition software is coming under fire again, this time from a group of prominent artificial intelligence researchers.

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Voicing Erasure

Inspired by Allison Koenecke’s research and the story of her exclusion, Joy Buolamwini wrote the spoken word poem “Voicing Erasure.” Participants include champions of women's empowerment and scholars.

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Highlights
CODED BIAS: A DOCUMENTARY

Directed by Shalini Kantayya, Coded Bias illuminates the harms that AI poses over people's lives, especially minorities. Official Sundance Selection 2020.

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Education
Facial Recognition Technology: Definition and Real-Life Applications.

Facial recognition relies on AI to learn the patterns of a human face, and it is a widely used technology by corporations and the government.

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Education
What do we mean by equitable and accountable AI?

Equitable AI is focused on empowering people. Accountable AI is focused on holding creators and sellers of AI responsible for their impacts.

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Coded Bias featured in Inc's 8 must-watch movies for Leaders in 2020

The documentary follows AJL' s founder on her mission to call for U.S. legislation to protect us against racial bias in algorithms.

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A Summary of the US Congress Testimony on Facial Recognition

AI experts, lawyers, and law enforcement urged US Congress to regulate the use of facial recognition technology.

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Advocacy
Letter to Congress FOR Suspension of use of Face Recognition Technology

Over 35 organizations joined the letter and it has been entered into the record at the House Homeland Security Committee hearing.

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Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial recognition systems

Facial recognition systems widely used by law enforcement misidentified people of color more often than white people.

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Education
Weapons of Math Destruction - New York Times Bestseller

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.

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Advocacy
MA State Hearing on Face Surveillance Moratorium

Experts, advocates, community leaders, and concerned voters testify in front of the Joint Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, October 22.

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Education
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

Sasha Costanza-Chock explores how community-led design can help dismantle structural inequality and advance collective liberation.

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AJL Founder Interviewed on The New York Times' Sway Podcast

On The New York Times' “Sway" Podcast, Kara Swisher interviews Joy Buolamwini, discussing taking Big Tech down a notch.

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Talks
The Coded Gaze video

Debuted at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, “The Coded Gaze” mini documentary follows Poet of Code Joy Buolamwini's personal frustrations with facial recognition software and the need for more inclusive code.

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Talks
1M+ views TED Talk: How I'm fighting Bias in AI? by AJL's Founder

AJL's founder is an acclaimed TED talk speaker. Watch her famous talk highlighting her story and research that led her to launch the Algorithmic Justice League.

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Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm

In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit.

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VICE names 'Coded Bias' as Most Important Film About AI

VICE says Coded Bias documentary is an essential introduction to algorithmic bias—and the systems that gave rise to it.

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Democracy Now!: "One Bad Algorithm?"

Advocates Say Facial Recognition Reveals Systemic Racism in AI Technology. Joy Buolamwini speaks with Democracy Now! Amy Goodman on the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams.

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AJL's Response to CBS 60 Minutes Erasure

“60 Minutes” episode on facial recognition erases pioneering work of prominent Black female researchers: Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Timnit Gebru, and Deborah Raji

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Highlights
Drag Vs AI Workshop

#DRAGVSAI is a hands-on workshop that explores identity, gender presentation, face surveillance, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic harms

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Advocacy
Facial Recognition Technology Hearing

The Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing examines the use of facial recognition technology by government and commercial entities and the need for oversight.

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Research
Gender Shades: Uncovering gender and skin-type bias in commercial AI products

Gender Shades is an excavation of inadvertent negligence that will cripple the age of automation and exacerbate inequality if left to fester.

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AJL Founder featured on Fast Company in annual list of Most Creative People in Business

The list recognizes individuals who used their innovative thinking to make an impact on the world beyond financial success.

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CRASH PROJECT

The Community Reporting of Algorithmic System Harms (CRASH) project brings together key stakeholders for discovery, scoping, and iterative prototyping of tools to enable broader participation in the creation of more accountable, equitable, and less harmful AI systems.

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Education
The "Drag Vs. AI" Workshop. How does AI read your face?

Attendees at the workshop explore identity, gender presentation, face surveillance, and the consequences of algorithmic bias.

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BBC Click: "Is AI Biased?"

Broadcast to 300 million viewers, BBC Click interviews AJL Founder Joy Buolamwini for the "Is AI Biased?" episode.

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Amazon Is Pushing Facial Technology That a Study Says Could Be Biased

This article highlights AJL’s study that tested facial technologies from Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Face++, and Kairos.

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Exhibitions
“The Coded Gaze: Unmasking Algorithmic Bias” EXHIBITION AT THE MFA

On November 4th, the Coded Gaze Exhibition debuts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the InCoding Manifesto was screened.

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Sunsetting the Safe Face Pledge

The Algorithmic Justice League and Center on Technology & Privacy at Georgetown Law decide to sunset the 2018 Safe Face Pledge aimed at curtailing abuses of facial recognition technologies.

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The woman fighting racist, sexist AI algorithm, and taking on the tech giants.

Joy Buolamwini is featured in a Telegraph article highlighting her revolutionary work with the Algorithmic Justice League.

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Exhibitions
Coded Bias: a documentary

Directed by Shalini Kantayya, Coded Bias illuminates the harms that AI poses over people's lives, especially minorities. Official Sundance Selection 2020.

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Cracking the Code of Beauty: AJL Founder on Good Morning America

Olay has teamed up with Joy Buolamwini, who explains how beauty data can marginalize people of color.

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AJL Releases Groundbreaking Report

AJL released a groundbreaking new report that lays the foundation for a new type of ‘bug bounty’ program (BBP) that will better incentivize the discovery of algorithmic bias and harm.

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Research
Bug Bounties for Algorithmic Harms Report

Lessons from cybersecurity vulnerability disclosure for algorithmic harms discovery, disclosure, and redress, led by AJL researchers Josh Kenway, Camille François, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, and Dr. Joy Buolamwini.

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The Atlantic: "The IRS Should Stop Using Facial Recognition"

The Atlantic Op-Ed by Dr. Joy Buolamwini urges taxpayers to be wary of the U.S. government for pushing ID.me’s face-based biometric technology on them.

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Fortune's "25 Ideas That Will Shape 2020" features AJL's Founder

AJL's Founder believe the "hygiene" of artificial intelligence will determine its longer-term success.

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When the Robot Doesn’t See Dark Skin

An Opinion piece in the New York Times about the AJL's research into biased AI, highlighting real-world examples like the hiring practices of HireVue’s algorithms.

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Press Release
CRASH Project update

Happy Hacker Summer Camp Season! A CRASH Project update, from the team at the Algorithmic Justice League

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Algorithmic Justice League among Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in Artificial Intelligence

Fast Company has listed Algorithmic Justice League as one of the 10 most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2020/2021.

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Dear Big Tech: a collaborative video response to an IBM ad.

A collaborative video response to IBM's "Dear Tech..." Ad which speaks to the potential of technology without addressing the role of tech companies in propagating harms.

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Highlights
Poet of Code shares: AI, Ain’t I a Woman?

A spoken word piece that highlights the ways in which artificial intelligence can misinterpret the images of iconic black women: Oprah, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and more.

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Advocacy
Data For Black Lives II Opening Panel

AJL at Data for Black Lives's opening panel: "We are the Leaders We've Been Looking For: Organizing for Algorithmic Accountability".

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Education
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (The MIT Press)

Our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in poorly designed systems.

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Research
Facial Recognition Technologies in the Wild: A Call for a Federal Office

In Facial Recognition Technologies in the Wild: A Call for a Federal Office, researchers Erik Learned-Miller, Joy Buolamwini, Vicente Ordóñez, and Jamie Morgenstern propose an FDA-inspired model that categorizes facial recognition technologies.

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Press
"Gender Shades" Researchers Honored at EFF Pioneer Award Ceremony

Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Timit Gebru, and Deborah Raji’s trailblazing academic research "Gender Shades" on race and gender bias in facial analysis technology is honored at EFF's Pioneer Award Ceremony 2020.

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2018 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology

Forbes's annual 30 under 30 list that chronicles the brashest entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada features AJL's founder.

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Advocacy
A request to ban Biometrics Surveillance in NY Schools

A 6787/S 5140 to ban the use of biometric surveillance technology in schools and require a commission to study the effects of this sort of technology on children.

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Exhibitions
“The Criminal Type” Exhibition at Apexart in New York City

In the 19th century, criminologists used the new medium of photography to classify and predict the "criminal type."

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Advocacy
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

The statement ahead of the White House's summit with technology companies on violent online extremism.

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AJL AT The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner

The Open Mind was the first to interview iconic civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. on national television.

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Advocacy
Brooklyn Tenants Amicus Letter Protesting Facial Recognition Systems

Brooklyn Tenants Protest Against Facial Recognition Entry Systems and AJL signs letter to New York State Homes and Community Renewal.

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Vital Voices “NowThis NEXT” Event

For Vital Voices' inaugural event franchise “NowThis NEXT” hosted by Late Night’s Seth Meyers and Netflix CMO Bozoma Saint John, New York Times Best-Selling author Elaine Welteroth interviewed Algorithmic Justice League Founder Joy Buolamwini.

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Build Tech We Trust Letter to Tech Industry

A collective of tech leaders sign a letter demanding that the tech industry stop the spread of hate and terrorism on digital platforms.

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Education
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how new technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

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Education
We Must Fight Face Surveillance to Protect Black Lives

An urgent letter from the Algorithmic Justice League

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Research
Facial Recognition Technologies: A Primer

Facial Recognition Technologies: A Primer provides a basic introduction to the terminology, applications, and difficulties of evaluating this complex set of technologies.

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Advocacy
Build Tech We Trust Letter to Tech Industry

A collective of tech leaders sign a letter demanding that the tech industry stop the spread of hate and terrorism on digital platforms.

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the existing power structures that drive AI bias at doha debates

AJL's founder sits down with Doha Debates Correspondent Nelufar Hedayat to talk about how existing power structures can lead to unintended bias in AI.

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Talks
"AI, Ain't I a Woman?" At Vision & Justice

Joy Buolamwini performs her spoken word piece “AI, Ain’t I A Woman?”—her response to algorithmic bias - in the Vision & Justice segment.

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Press
In the radio. AI and Creativity: what makes us human?

A unique and interesting debate at the Barbican about whether creativity is only a human trait. Joy participates in the debate.

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Exhibitions
“Nine Moments for Now” Exhibition at The Hutchins Center, Harvard University

In the wake of #BlackLivesMatter and #TimesUp, this exhibition highlights that democracy, time and memory are as fragile as our breath.

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Advocacy
Congressional Hearing testimony: Societal & Ethical Implications of algorithms

Testimony at U.S House of Representatives Committee on Algorithmic Intelligence: Societal and Ethical Implications - Congressional Hearing"

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Research
Actionable Auditing: Investigating the Impact of Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products

Although algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases in software platforms, we struggle to understand the real impact of these audits.

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BBC Report: UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women

Women with darker skin are more than twice as likely to be told their photos fail UK passport rules when they submit them online than lighter-skinned men, according to a BBC investigation using procedures from the Gender Shades study.

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Talks
Gender Shades: Evaluation of face data sets and data classifiers

We risk losing the gains made with the civil rights movement and women's movement under the false assumption of machine neutrality.

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Press
The Documentary Films You Can't Afford to Miss in 2020

Coded Bias, which will premiere at Sundance, follows the journey to pass the first-ever legislation to govern A.I. in the US.

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Advocacy
EU Global Tech Panel launched by High Representative Mogherini

The aim of the Global Tech Panel is to foster more cooperation between diplomacy and technology to address challenges and threats.

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Press
Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien

In an interview with Soledad O’Brien, Joy says that facial recognition software and technology need more regulation to ensure its accuracy.

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Press
A reflection about facial recognition systems on BBC Newsnight Live

On BBC Newsnight Live, Founder of AJL Joy Buolamwini reflects on facial recognition technology.

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Education
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Safiya Noble raises clear alarms about the ways Google shapes our lives, minds, and attitudes.

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Press
The AJL's approach to the question: Will AI help or harm humans globally?

The Doha Debate tackles the most contentious question of all: Will AI help or harm humans globally?

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WIRED25: Stories of People Who Are Racing to Save Us

WIRED25 features AJL's founder and offers real hope that we can fix the mistakes of the past and still have a chance for a future we can survive.

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Exhibitions
“AI: More Than Human” Exhibition at the Barbican London, UK

“AI: More Than Human” looks at AI’s real-life application in fields such as healthcare, journalism and retail.

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Exhibitions
GetxoPhoto Art Festival “Post Homo Sapiens” Exhibition in Spain

The 13th edition of GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival addresses the challenges faced by individuals in a present world powered by AI.

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The Safe Face Pledge is a public commitment towards accountable AI

AJL's founder urges public and private organizations including IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook Amazon, and more to sign the Safe Face Pledge.

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At the NPR TED radio hour: How Does Facial Recognition Software See Skin Color?

AJL's founder is interviewed in Part 2 of the  episode "Can We Trust The Numbers?".

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“AI: More Than Human” Exhibition at the Barbican in London

“AI: More Than Human” looks at AI’s real-life application in fields such as healthcare, journalism and retail.

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Coded Bias Documentary Premieres at Sundance Festival 2020

Directed by Shalini K., Code for Bias sheds light about the harms and biases of artificial intelligence impacting our society.

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Exhibitions
"Never Alone: What Happens When Everything Is Connected" exhibition

The National Science and Media Museum’s exhibition explores trends around internet connected devices, which have outnumbered humans.

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Press
Gender Shades: Black Panther Face Scorecard

The Gender Shades research used 1270 faces to reveal IBM, Miscrosoft, and Face++ were better at guessing the gender of male faces than female faces.

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Education
Virginia Eubanks on Automating Inequality

Eubanks shows the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.

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Exhibitions
"AVATARS//futures" exhibition at Nave Gallery in Somerville, MA

AVATARS//futures documents how artists represent their bodies, their ideas, their nations, and their dead in today’s digital world.

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Education
Poem "Pressure on the Neck"

Poem by the Poet of Code

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Talks
Can You See My Face?

“Can You See My Face?” is a poetic video by AJL's founder that illustrates the bias in coded systems.

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Press
Regulating Facial Recognition Will Require a New Federal Authority

AI experts have joined forces to call for a dedicated federal office with the central authority to govern FRTs in their landmark new proposal Facial Recognition Technologies in the Wild: A Call for a Federal Office.

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Press
A discussion on race, technology and algorithmic bias

Joy Buolamwini, Latanya Sweeney, and Darren Walker come together to discuss the limits of technology in the face of algorithmic bias.

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Advocacy
“Compassion Through Computation: Fighting Algorithmic Bias” at the WEF

Joy Buolamwini discusses “Compassion Through Computation: Fighting Algorithmic Bias” at the World Economic Forum.

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Press
"Compassion through Computation" at davos 2019

From law enforcement to talent acquisition, computer vision and algorithms are increasingly making selections with societal consequences.

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Advocacy
Audit of Amazon Rekognition Uncovers Gender and Skin-Type Disparities

A letter to Jeff Bezos uncovering bias in Amazon's Rekognition software and urging him to stop selling it to Law Enforcement.

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Education
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination―and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity.

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Education
Algorithms of Oppression: Safiya Umoja Noble

When Safiya Googled keywords "black girls," "latina girls," and "asian girls," the first page of results were of adult content.

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Education
IBM Leads, More Should Follow: Racial Justice Requires Algorithmic Justice

The Algorithmic Justice League commends this decision as a first move forward towards company-side responsibility to promote equitable and accountable AI.

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Press
Artificial Intelligence Has A Problem With Gender and Racial Bias

Joy Buolamwini writes an Op-Ed in TIME Magazine’s 2019 Optimists issue, guest-edited by Ava DuVernay.

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Talks
Ford's Public Interest Tech Campaign: how we make technology benefit all.

As artificial intelligence continues to transform our daily lives and power our world, are we stopping to ask ourselves, "Do these technologies benefit all of us?

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Education
The era of blind faith in big data must end

Data skeptic Cathy O’Neil uncovers the dark secrets of big data, showing how our "objective" algorithms could in fact reinforce human bias.

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Press
About Face: One Woman’s Quest to Make AI Less Biased

Facial recognition programs can be biased against darker skin tones and against women. NBC's Stephanie Ruhle explores why it matters.

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Talks
The official Medium blog of the Algorithmic Justice League's Founder.

Joy Buolamwini, a poet of code, tells stories that make daughters of diasporas dream and sons of privilege pause.

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Press
These Black Women Are Fighting For Justice In A World of Biased Algorithms

Black women engineers, professors, and government experts speak about being on the front lines of the civil rights movement.

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The Digital Activist Taking Human Prejudice Out of Our Machines

Joy Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League to make people aware of the bias embedded in our networks.

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Exhibitions
The Big Bang Data Exhibition at MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA

Big Bang Data explores the intersections of culture,technology, and society in the digital age.

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