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🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Dr. Joy Buolamwini is a computer scientist and a poet of code who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She joins to discuss her career as the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, her best-selling book Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines, and her featured role in the acclaimed Netflix documentary Coded Bias.
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0:00.0 | It wasn't as easy as saying, okay, let's make more inclusive data sets. |
0:05.2 | And when we have more inclusive data sets, we'll have more accurate facial recognition. |
0:09.7 | But accurate systems can be abused. |
0:13.2 | And so the analysis had to be not just how well does the technology work, |
0:19.2 | but what kind of technologies do we want in society in the first place? |
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