Joy Buolamwini is a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League an organisation that aims to challenge the biases in decision-making software. She grew up in Mississippi, gained a Rhodes scholarship, and she is also a Fulbright fellow, an Astronaut scholar and a Google Anita Borg scholar. Earlier this year she won a $50,000 scholarship funded by the makers of the film Hidden Figures for her work fighting coded discrimination.A lot of your work concerns facial recognition technology. How did you become interested in that area?When I was a computer science undergraduate I was working on social robotics the robots use computer vision to detect the humans they socialise with. I discovered I had a hard time being detected by the robot compared to lighter-skinned people. At the time I thought this was a one-off thing and that people would fix this.
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