Ideas from the CBC: Facial Recognition

Dr Joy Buolamwini is an MIT researcher and bestselling author whose work has exposed biases in AI facial recognition systems — biases that can spread around the world as quickly as a viral video clip. Racial bias, sex and gender bias, and ableism, all in the AI universe — these can have a damaging concrete impact on our future as individuals and as groups. Our most basic freedoms are at stake — freedom of speech, movement, freedom to flourish, even the freedom not to be arrested and detained for crimes we didn't commit.