The Narrative of Public Criticism

Joy Buolamwini, a doctoral student at the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab, and Deborah Raji, an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, released an important piece of research on January 25, an analysis of commercial facial analysis tools that indicated that most of these tools perform better on white male faces than they do on black female faces. Specifically, Buolamwini and Raji tested to see whether machine learning models could identify […]