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Technology & Ethics
Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification
What it is
Tested three commercial face-classification products and found error rates of up to 34.7% for darker-skinned women against 0.8% for lighter-skinned men. The study that turned algorithmic bias from a theory into a measured, published fact. Free to read in full.
Why I recommend it
If you read one AI ethics paper, read this one. It is short, the method is easy to follow, and it is the reason facial recognition audits exist at all.
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