The UK police admitted that their facial recognition technology has a significant racial bias.
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After being ghosted by numerous recruiters during her unemployment, Aliyah Jones, a Black woman, decided to create a LinkedIn ‘catfish’ account under the name Emily Osborne, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman eager to advance her career in graphic design. The only difference between ‘Emily’ and Jones? Their names and skin colour. Their work experience and capabilities were the same.
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We wrote about the I am not a typo campaign before. They have shared good news with us: “Responding to feedback from customers and working with members of the I Am Not A Typo campaign, Microsoft has implemented product updates to ensure its dictionary better reflects the names of people living in modern, multicultural Britain, using official Office for National Statistics (ONS) baby name data as a guide.”
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For many years and for many people, GeoMatch by the Immigration Policy Lab was a shining example of ‘AI for Good’: instead of using algorithms to find criminals or fraud, why don’t we use it to allocate asylum seekers to regions that give them the most job opportunities? Only the naive can be surprised that this didn’t work out as promised.
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