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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Poem by the Poet of Code

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

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.

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

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

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