Episode 1157 • • 1:03:25 - 1:08:44
1157: Carbon Captions
Joy Buolamwini and the Algorithmic Justice League
MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League after discovering that facial recognition software failed to detect her dark-skinned face until she wore a white mask. This failure highlights how biased training data sets, often lacking diversity, lead to discriminatory outcomes in artificial intelligence.