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Dr. Joy Buolamwini predicted that companies using AI systems built on data taken without consent and compensation would face more class action lawsuits. She also predicted that companies concerned about the climate impact of AI systems would explore green AI pipelines.
Hi, Karen, Scott. This is Dr. Joy Boulamwini, the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League and the author of Unmasking AI, my mission to protect what is human in a world of machines.
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Dr. Joy Buolamwini predicted that companies using AI systems built on data taken without consent and compensation would face more class action lawsuits. She also predicted that companies concerned about the climate impact of AI systems would explore green AI pipelines.
Hi, Karen, Scott. This is Dr. Joy Boulamwini, the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League and the author of Unmasking AI, my mission to protect what is human in a world of machines.
My prediction for AI in 2024 is that companies adopting AI systems that have been built on data taken without consent and compensation will face a growing number of class action lawsuits and that companies concerned about the climate impact of training AI systems will start exploring green AI pipelines.
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Dr. Joy Buolamwini discussed her book "Unmasking AI", and her role in the Algorithmic Justice League. She shared her experience with facial recognition technology, which didn't track her face well until she put on a white mask. This led her to explore the deeper question of whether machines are neutral.
The mask makes sense. Like it can't see you if you don't have a white face essentially.
So I think about notions of the male gaze or the white gaze coming from various scholars, which is to say who has power? Who gets to decide what is viewed as worthy? What gets the spotlight? And also who has the power to shape the priorities of the technologies we see? So like men have had power and white people have had power, hence the male gaze and the white gaze. Here I'm putting those cousin concepts into the notion of who has power when it comes to shaping AI.
It's the pale males I often talk about, you know.
I actually start the book as the daughter of an artist and a scientist and feeding cancer cells in my dad's lab. And so those sort of protein folding structures, you'll see with AlphaFold when I was a little girl, I would see that in my dad's office and he wanted me to get into chemistry and computer aided drug development. And I kind of went a different route. But I do think that offers exciting potential.
I feel like any of these would be an endorsement.
