Dear Simone Biles, Generating Outstanding Awareness Tenaciously! This week the world witnessed a great skill: The Biles Refusal — executed by saying no to golden promises to say yes to priceless health — delivered with grace. Thank you for your life affirming example. You are courage personified. 🔥🔥🔥 Your actions…

The Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) and the Center on Technology & Privacy at Georgetown Law are announcing the sunset of the Safe Face Pledge. The 2018 Safe Face Pledge was a historic initiative designed to prohibit lethal use and lawless police use of facial analysis technology, as well as to…

The Algorithmic Justice League commends IBM’s decision to stop providing general purpose facial recognition technologies, and calls for next steps: systematic change requires resources. IBM should lead its industry peers, and each company should commit to provide at least one million dollars to support racial justice in the tech sector. …

An urgent letter from the Algorithmic Justice League — The Algorithmic Justice League is an organization that combines art and research to illuminate the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence. Our mission is to raise public awareness about the impacts of A.I., equip advocates with empirical research to bolster campaigns, build the voice and choice of most impacted…

Pressure on the neck, protests in the streets, people standing up, people shouting down, rest cannot be found when the system pulls the trigger then asks you to be bigger. — Peace will not abound when cries of pain meet tears of gas, when civil demands for life meet rubber…

Thank you Chairman Cummings, Ranking Member Jordan, and committee members for the opportunity to testify today. I am an algorithmic bias researcher based at MIT. I’ve conducted studies showing some of the largest recorded gender and skin type biases in AI systems sold by companies including IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon. …

Today my op-ed on racial and gender bias in facial analysis and recognition technology was published by TIME magazine. Again, I highlighted that Amazon like their peers demonstrated racial and gender bias in the Amazon Rekogntion gender classification feature we audited in August 2018. We did this audit months after…

Update: “ Twenty-six researchers, including Yoshua Bengio, a recent winner of the Turing Award, the industry’s highest honor, called for Amazon to stop selling its Rekognition AI service to police departments in a post on Wednesday. Bengio was joined by Anima Anandkumar, a former principal scientist at Amazon’s cloud division…

Since publishing my MIT research findings on racial and gender bias in facial analysis technology sold by IBM, Microsoft, and Megvii (Face++), technology executives, startup founders, and senior scientists have solicited my help in improving their products and research projects. I have intentionally focused my efforts on using conclusive research…