Facial recognition technology is racist
This may be the first known case of its kind — a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he didn’t commit. Needless to say — he’s black.
(tags: facial-recognition law justice privacy faces racism technology future bias machine)
A beginner’s guide to ex-battery chickens
This is great — everything you need to know to keep rescue chickens. We have a pair arriving on Saturday :)
FRAMED Heron by Annie Atkins – Damn Fine Print
lovely print to commemorate the 100th Liffey Swim by the supertalented Annie Atkins
(tags: to-get prints liffey dublin heron art annie-atkins want)
Examples of biased AI/ML usage in healthcare and life sciences
‘I was on an expert panel about “AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare and Life Sciences” back in January, and I made it a point throughout my discussions to keep emphasizing the amount of bias inherent in our current systems, which ends up getting amplified and codified in machine learning systems. Worse yet, it ends up justifying the bias based on the false pretense that the systems built are objective and the data doesn’t lie. Afterward, a couple people asked me to put together a list of the examples I cited in my talk.’
(tags: bias bugs ai ml fail healthcare medicine life-sciences machine-learning racism)