2018 AD
Gender Shades audits unequal error rates
Artificial intelligence · Bias and society
Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru found substantial differences across gender and skin-tone groups in commercial classifiers. The study evaluated binary gender classification from faces, not every form of facial recognition, and made intersectional auditing a central evaluation concern.
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