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- May 24, 2021
- 4 min
AI and EDI: reflections on making BlackTalk - a new podcast
Last week Google announced a new dermatology app the doesn’t work on darker skinned people. A few days earlier, 60 Minutes did a piece on facial recognition technology used in policing and how it has led to wrongful arrests of Black and Brown people. However, the reporting completely erased the contributions of three Black women who pioneered this work – Joy Buolamwini, Deborah Raji and Timnit Gebru. Here in Canada, an 81 year old Black man, a retired BC Supreme Court Justice