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On IBM Leaving the Facial Recognition Industry
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Author: Martin Barakov; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how racial recognition technologies have been criticized for their lack of usefulness and ability to generate true positives for years now. This article provides multiple real world examples, such as New York Police Department, South Wales Police, and Clearview artificial intelligence (AI), to…
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China Deploys Its First Robot Traffic Police
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Author: Kristin Houser; Publisher: Futurism; Publication Year: 2019. The following article is about 3 “road patrol robots” that were recently released in China. These robots will be able to identify drivers using facial recognition, take pictures of reckless behavior, report security risks, and let drivers know of an accident ahead. They will be on duty…
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Transphobia in Algorithms
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Author: Kelsey Campbell; Publisher: Gay TA Science; Publication Year: 2021. In the following talk, Kelsey explains how the cissexism present in society today impacts data science as a field. They give examples from real-life on cissexism’s impact. For example, facial recognition technology has caused several issues for trans people. A trans person’s appearance may change…
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IBM’s Photo-Scraping Scandal Shows What a Weird Bubble AI Researchers Live In
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Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how in March of 2019, NBC released a story with the headline “Facial recognition ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos scraped without consent.” The story expands on a data set released by IBM of one million photos of faces to…
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AI is Sending People to Jail — and Getting it Wrong
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Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following resource is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how unethical and plain incorrect use of machine learning can severely impact underrepresented individuals. In the article, the author describes various ways law enforcement agencies use predictive modeling to improve the efficiency of…
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Race, Technology, and Algorithmic Bias
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Author: Joy Buolamwini, Latanya Sweeney, and Darren Walker; Publisher: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Publication Year: 2019. The following video documents a conversation between Joy Buolamwini, Latanya Sweeney, and Darren Walker. Leading the discussion is Latanya Sweeney, founder of Public Interest Tech Lab. During this half-hour discussion these 3 subject matter professionals delve…
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IBM Leads, More Should Follow: Racial Justice Requires Algorithmic Justice
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Author: Joy Buolamwini, Aaina Agarwal, and Sasha Costanza-Chock; Publisher: The Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article applauds IBM for the decision to restrict sales of facial recognition technology in response to bias and abuse. It’s an example of a company genuinely, if belatedly, demonstrating a commitment to basic artificial intelligence ethics. The article calls…
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Keynote Speaker: Joy Buolamwini Presented by SpeakInc
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Author: Joy Buolamwini Publisher: SpeakInc Publication Year: 2018 Summary: In the following video, Joy Buolamwini expands on her mission of the ‘Coded Gaze’, her term for algorithmic bias which can lead to discriminatory practices or exclusionary experiences. She recalls her experience of her face only being recognized after she wore a white mask. She provides…
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How I’m Fighting Bias in Algorithms
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Author: Joy Buolamwini; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: N/A. The following speech discusses how algorithmic bias, or the “coded gaze,” can lead to discriminatory practices. Machine learning is being used for facial recognition but a lack of Black and Brown faces in training sets has led to an inability to identify them. Joy suggests that we…
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Who Will Establish Metaverse Ethics?
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Author: Josh Entsminger, Mark Esposito, Terence Tse; Publisher: Project Syndicate; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how the “metaverse” is a term describing a dystopian society characterized by the immersion of virtual reality into daily life. The development of new technologies as we head towards the metaverse requires greater focus on data ethics to…
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