Joy Buolamwini was conducting research at MIT on how computers recognized people’s faces, when she started experiencing something weird…..
Whenever she sat before a system’s front-facing camera, it wouldn’t recognize her face, even after working for her lighter-skinned friends. But when she put on a simple white mask, the face-tracking animation suddenly lit up the screen.
Decisions about real people are being made inside a black box that few understand, or question.
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