As scientists work to design and test robots and their perceived intelligence, Dr. Joy Buolamwini is dedicated to fighting algorithmic bias in order for AI systems to recognize individuals from marginalized communities.
. It had big ears that moved. It could smile. I didn't know you could do that with machines. So, from when I was little, I had in my mind that I wanted to be a robotics engineer and I was going to MIT.
[A few years later] at MIT, when I was creating [a robot] that would say, "Hello, beautiful," I was struggling to have it detect my face. I tried drawing a face on my hand and it detected that. I happened to have a white [Halloween] mask in my office. I put it on [and it detected that]. I was literally coding in whiteface. I did another project where you could "paint walls" with your smile. Same issue: Either my face wasn't detected, or when it was I was labeled male.
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