Abolish the #TechToPrisonPipeline Crime-prediction technology reproduces injustices & causes real harm. The open letter highlights why crime predicting technologies tend to be inherently racist.
Read MoreThe enormous financial success of online advertising platforms is partially due to the precise targeting features they offer. Although researchers and journalists have found many ways that advertisers can target – or exclude – particular groups of users seeing their ads, comparatively little attenti… Ad-delivery is controlled by the advertising platform (eg. Facebook) and researchers […]
Read MoreGender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification Recent studies demonstrate that machine learning algorithms can discriminate based on classes like race and gender. In this work, we present an approach to evaluate bias present in automated facial… Commercial AI facial recognition systems tend to misclassify darker-skinned females more than any other group (lighter-skinned […]
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