Joy Buolamwini
Joy Buolamwini | |
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PhD) | |
Known for | Algorithmic Justice League |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Media Arts & Sciences Computer science Algorithmic bias |
Institutions | MIT Media Lab |
Theses | |
Doctoral advisor | Ethan Zuckerman[1] |
Website | www |
Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Canadian-American computer scientist and digital activist formerly based at the MIT Media Lab.[2] She founded the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), an organization that works to challenge bias in decision-making software, using art, advocacy, and research to highlight the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence (AI).[3]
Early life and education
Buolamwini was born in Edmonton, Alberta, grew up in Mississippi, and attended Cordova High School in Cordova, Tennessee.[4] At age nine, she was inspired by Kismet, the MIT robot, and taught herself XHTML, JavaScript and PHP.[5][6] She was a competitive pole vaulter.[7]
As an undergraduate, Buolamwini studied computer science at the
Buolamwini is a
Career and research
In 2011, Buolamwini worked with the trachoma program at the Carter Center to develop an Android-based assessment system for use in Ethiopia.[17][5]
As a Fulbright fellow, in 2013 she worked with local computer scientists in Zambia to help Zambian youth become technology creators.[18] On September 14, 2016, Buolamwini appeared at the White House summit on Computer Science for All.[citation needed]
She is a researcher at the
Buolamwini's research was cited in 2020 as an influence for Google and Microsoft in addressing gender and race bias in their products and processes.[31]
She also served as an advisor to President Biden ahead of his administration's Executive Order 14110, released October 30, 2023. The order is also known as the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (sometimes referred to as "Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence").[32][33]
In 2023, she published her first book, Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines, which chronicles her research.[34]
Activism
Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) in 2016 to promote equitable and accountable artificial intelligence (AI).[35] The AJL organization combines art and research to point out potential societal implications and harms of AI. The company works to raise public awareness of the impacts of AI, and promote further research in the area.
The AJL website provides information and a live blog.
Voicing Erasure
The Voicing Erasure section on the AJL website hosts spoken pieces by Buolamwini,
The Coded Gaze
The Coded Gaze is a mini-documentary that debuted at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2016, and is currently available via YouTube. Buolamwini uses the mini documentary to talk about the bias that she believes lies in artificial intelligence's function. The inspiration for the mini documentary and her research came when she was at MIT, creating her art "Aspire Mirror," which uses facial recognition to reflect another person who inspires a user, onto that user's face.[40] Buolamwini anticipated having Serena Williams, another dark-skinned woman, reflected onto her face. However, the technology did not recognize her face. Buolamwini's research investigated why this happened, and consequently led Buolamwini to conclude that the exclusion of people who look like her was a result of a practice she called the "Coded Gaze."[41] She further discusses this concept in the mini documentary, "The Coded Gaze." The documentary explores how AI can be subject to racial and gender biases that reflect the views and cultural backgrounds of those who develop it.[42]
Coded Bias
Coded Bias is a documentary film directed by Shalini Kantayya that features Buolamwini’s research about AI inaccuracies in facial recognition technology and automated assessment software.[43][36] It focuses on what the film's creators regard as a lack of regulation of facial recognition tools sold by IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon, and which they say perpetuates racial and gender bias. The film describes a dispute between Brooklyn tenants and a building management company that tried to use facial recognition to control entry to a building. The film featured Weapons of Math Destruction author Cathy O'Neill and members of Big Brother Watch in London, including Silkie Carlo. On April 5, 2021, the documentary was made available to stream on Netflix.[44]
Exhibitions
Projects conducted by Algorithmic Justice League have been exhibited at art institutions including the Barbican Centre in London, UK, and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.[45]
- The Criminal Type (2019) Exhibition at APEXART, New York, NY, US[46]
- Understanding AI (2019) Exhibition at Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria[47]
- AI: More than Human (2019) Exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London, UK[48]
- Nine Moments for Now (2018) Exhibition at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US[49]
- Big Bang Data (2018) Exhibition at MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, US[50]
Awards and honors
In 2017, Buolamwini was awarded the grand prize in the professional category in the Search for Hidden Figures contest, tied to the release of the film Hidden Figures in December 2016.[51] The contest, sponsored by PepsiCo and 21st Century Fox, was intended to "help uncover the next generation of female leaders in science, technology, engineering and math,"[52] and attracted 7,300 submissions from young women across the United States.[10]
Buolamwini delivered a
In 2019, Buolamwini was listed in
In 2022, Buolamwini was named the ASQ Hutchens Medalist.[63] In 2023, she was listed in the Time 100 AI.[64]
Personal life
Buolamwini has lived in Ghana; Barcelona, Spain; Oxford, United Kingdom; and, in the U.S.,
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