"Coded Bias," featuring MIT Media Lab Researcher Joy Buolamwini who co-authored a study showing racial and gender bias in facial recognition programs, premiered on PBS, Boston.com reports. Buolamwini identified similar inaccuracies in services from Microsoft, IBM and Amazon. The documentary includes real-life stories of faulty or unethical artificial intelligence. But Director Shalini Kantayya said racial bias isn’t the only troublesome aspect of the technology, adding “until there are some guardrails in place in terms of public policy, we should be pressing pause on facial recognition.”
23 March 2021
Documentary highlights racial, gender bias of facial recognition programs
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