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  • New York Times
  • 2018
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Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy

This article details the research of Joy Buolamwini on racial bias coded into algorithms, specifically facial recognition programs. When auditing facial recognition software from several large companies such as IBM and Face++, she found that they are far worse at properly identifying darker skinned faces. Overall, this reveals that facial analysis and recognition programs are in need of exterior systems of accountability.

  • New York Times
  • 2018
  • 7 min
  • The Verge
  • 2020
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What a machine learning tool that turns Obama white can (and can’t) tell us about AI bias

PULSE is an algorithm which can supposedly determine what a face looks like from a pixelated image. The problem: more often than not, the algorithm will return a white face, even when the person from the pixelated photograph is a person of color. The algorithm works through creating a synthetic face which matches with the pixel pattern, rather than actually clearing up the image. It is these synthetic faces that demonstrate a clear bias toward white people, demonstrating how institutional racism makes its way thoroughly into technological design. Thus, diversity in data sets will not full help until broader solutions combatting bias are enacted.

  • The Verge
  • 2020
  • 10 min
  • The Atlantic
  • 2014
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How Self-Tracking Apps Exclude Women

When the Apple Health app first released, it lacked one crucial component: the ability to track menstrual cycles. This exclusion of women from accessible design of technology is not the exception but rather the rule. This results from problems inherent to the gender imbalance in technology workplaces, especially at the level of design. Communities such as the Quantified Self offer spaces to help combat this exclusive culture.

  • The Atlantic
  • 2014
  • 30 min
  • UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG GRADUATE SCHOOLS
  • 1982
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Cyberspace and Internet Imaginations: “Burning Chrome” by William Gibson

Hardware specialist Automatic Jack is roped into a dangerous hacking scheme with his partner Bobby Quine while they compete for the affections of Rikki. Their plan is to use deadly malware to infiltrate the protections of Chrome, a mysterious overlord of cyberspace who hoards massive amounts of wealth. They enact this plan by entering cyberspace within a program and visualizing the data held within this digital network which connects people all across the globe.

  • UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG GRADUATE SCHOOLS
  • 1982
  • 20 min
  • MIT Press
  • 2018
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Robotic Proxies and Telepresence: “Different Seas” by Alastair Reynolds

Lilith, a contract laborer, ends up in a dangerous situation when the self-driving ship she rides malfunctions. Kyleen, a human who has undergone a human-editing networking process called “meshing,” is able to control a proxy robot via a brain-computer interface to help Lilith get to her destination safely.

  • MIT Press
  • 2018
  • 2 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2019
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Implanted Technology and Disconnection

In an imagined future of London, citizens all across the globe are connected to the Feed, a device and network accessed constantly through a brain-computer interface. In this narrative, Max, a citizen whose Feed was hacked, has to get the device removed from his body as his best friends watch. This procedure includes the removal of some of his memories from both his brain and from the device, although they manage to upload these into a cloud.

  • Kinolab
  • 2019
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