Data Ethics & Literacy

Racial bias is shown in programs such as those that tag people as gorillas in photos and data gathering that reinforces systemic racism. These are two but not the only upsetting examples of racial bias in data. 

Coded Bias (film)follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within facial recognition algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.

Note to Self Podcast - AI Learns from Us. So it Learns Bias.

The Best Algorithms Struggle to Recognize Black Faces Equally

Millions of black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations

"MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't detect her face -- because the people who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it to identify a broad range of skin tones and facial structures. Now she's on a mission to fight bias in machine learning, a phenomenon she calls the 'coded gaze.' It's an eye-opening talk about the need for accountability in coding ... as algorithms take over more and more aspects of our lives."

"What do our algorithms say about our society? In this talk, social scientist Safiya Umoja Noble investigates the bias revealed in search engine results and argues why we have to be skeptical of the algorithms we rely upon every day."