In the Media

Quartz reporter Nicolas Rivero notes that IBM’s decision to end its facial recognition program was inspired by “one influential piece of research: the Gender Shades project, from MIT Media Lab’s Joy Buolamwini and Microsoft Research’s Timnit Gebru.” Buolamwini and Gebru found that “commercial facial recognition software was significantly less accurate for darker-skinned women than for lighter-skinned men. “