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Dr, Joy Buolamwini, Founder and Artist-in-Chief, Algorithmic Justice League named TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2023

Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along

When you starting learning about systems, everything is sexist. Everything is racist. Everything is homophobic. And you have to point it all out.

A recent study has found that facial recognition technology has a significantly higher error rate when it comes to identifying Black women compared to white males.

This article aims to provide a context of the history of AI, the opportunities, challenges, new services, and governance.

Deb Raji explains why everyone needs to know the basics of AI, not just computer scientists and programmers.

As artificial intelligence dominates political, social, and economic discourse, fixation on potential harms is understandable.

AI safety bounties are programs where public participants or approved security researchers receive rewards for identifying issues within powerful ML systems.

You can refuse TSA face scans at the airport. TSA face scans are voluntary, and you can ask for manual verification instead.

A roundtable discussion with three experts in artificial intelligence on growing concerns over the technology’s potential dangers.

Dr. Buolamwini joins Ed Ludlow to discuss White House AI Roundtable and the rise of the AI hype, what the tech industry is getting right and wrong, and the need for AI regulation.

Amy Goodman interviews AJL Founder about meeting with President Biden and biometric rights.

Mr. Robert Williams is the first recipient of The Gender Shades Justice Award for being excoded. Moreover showing his courageousness in the fight against future Harms and algorithmic biases.

NPR/Wired discussed how artificial intelligence is being used by law enforcement for facial recognition and even predictive policing. They asked how much these technologies can really curb crime and at what cost to our freedom.

The Harvard Business Review uncovered ethics in the age of AI with six researchers. To help understand the ideologies, cultural expectations, and mindsets that influence Silicon Valley's priorities.

John Oliver discussed how Artificial Intelligence - ChatGPT, affects everyone everywhere and how we cannot control how they act. John explored and shed light on all the unintelligent outputs from AI in various forms.

ID.me protections are all about protecting the company, not us. In fact, by using ID.me to access your information, you are automatically waiving your right to a class action lawsuit against the company.

The Gender Shades Project began in 2016 as the focus of Dr. Buolamwini’s MIT master’s thesis inspired by her struggles with face detection systems. In 2018, she and Dr. Timnit Gebru subsequently published the widely known Gender Shades paper.

Seeking to address the responsible ongoing development of AI, UNESCO released a timely paper, "Missing Links in Governance."

The "Who Audits the Auditors?" paper was presented at the ACM FAccT Conference on June 21, 2022. Algorithmic Audits (or AI AUdits) have increased in popularity, however, they remain poorly defined.

Tawana Petty the Director of Policy and Advocacy with the Algorithmic Justice League, received the CAIDP AI Policy Civil Service Award on April 6, 2023, by the Center for AI and Digital Policy.

Dr. Joy Buolamwini won the first Morals & Machines Prize of 2023, for being a momentual force in the field of responsible technology.

Dr. Joy Buolamwini began The Gender Shade Project as a focus for her master's thesis. Joining forces with Dr. Timnit Gebru, a published paper was born in 2018. The paper powerfully demonstrated Algorithmic Bias from leading tech companies.

The IRS said in 2022 it would "transition away from using a third-party service for facial recognition." Let's hold them accountable.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Poem by the Poet of Code

An urgent letter from the Algorithmic Justice League

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

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.

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.

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

A powerful spoken word piece that discusses how even iconic Black women figures are mislabeled and mis-gendered by facial analysis tools.

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

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

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

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

When the Future Is Now: On Understanding AI and Being a Misfit Artist in a Family of Scientists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How intelligent can artificial intelligence be? And more importantly: what effects will the advances in this field have on our society?

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

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

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

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.

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