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Study Finds Gender and Skin-Type Bias in Commercial AI Systems (MIT News, 2018)

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MIT News covers Joy Buolamwini's Gender Shades research, which found three commercial facial-analysis programs had much higher error rates for darker-skinned women than for lighter-skinned men, and proposed a more balanced benchmark.

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