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Unmasking AI

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines follows the journey of our founder Dr. Joy Buolamwini from eager student to a role model in the movement for algorithmic justice.

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Facial Recognition Technology: Definition and Real-Life Applications.

Facial recognition relies on AI to learn the patterns of a human face, and it is a widely used technology by corporations and the government.

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What do we mean by equitable and accountable AI?

Equitable AI is focused on empowering people. Accountable AI is focused on holding creators and sellers of AI responsible for their impacts.

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Weapons of Math Destruction - New York Times Bestseller

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.

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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

Sasha Costanza-Chock explores how community-led design can help dismantle structural inequality and advance collective liberation.

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The "Drag Vs. AI" Workshop. How does AI read your face?

Attendees at the workshop explore identity, gender presentation, face surveillance, and the consequences of algorithmic bias.

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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (The MIT Press)

Our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in poorly designed systems.

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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how new technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

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We Must Fight Face Surveillance to Protect Black Lives

An urgent letter from the Algorithmic Justice League

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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Safiya Noble raises clear alarms about the ways Google shapes our lives, minds, and attitudes.

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Virginia Eubanks on Automating Inequality

Eubanks shows the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.

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Poem "Pressure on the Neck"

Poem by the Poet of Code

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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination―and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity.

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Algorithms of Oppression: Safiya Umoja Noble

When Safiya Googled keywords "black girls," "latina girls," and "asian girls," the first page of results were of adult content.

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IBM Leads, More Should Follow: Racial Justice Requires Algorithmic Justice

The Algorithmic Justice League commends this decision as a first move forward towards company-side responsibility to promote equitable and accountable AI.

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The era of blind faith in big data must end

Data skeptic Cathy O’Neil uncovers the dark secrets of big data, showing how our "objective" algorithms could in fact reinforce human bias.

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Unmasking AI

Facial Recognition Technology: Definition and Real-Life Applications.

What do we mean by equitable and accountable AI?

Weapons of Math Destruction - New York Times Bestseller

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

The "Drag Vs. AI" Workshop. How does AI read your face?

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (The MIT Press)

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

We Must Fight Face Surveillance to Protect Black Lives

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Virginia Eubanks on Automating Inequality

Poem "Pressure on the Neck"

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Algorithms of Oppression: Safiya Umoja Noble

IBM Leads, More Should Follow: Racial Justice Requires Algorithmic Justice

The era of blind faith in big data must end

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