Coded bias is claimed to not recognized dark-skinned faces as accurate as it should have. Many people are against this and in my opinion, it shouldn't have that much power in the government since its not a fully developed technology.
The way that it should be, science is supposed to be an unbiased opinion. But is it really? In the thought-provoking documentary “Coded Bias,” director Shalini Kantayya questions the neutrality of technology, arguing that computers have a built-in bias that reflects the wrong assumptions of the people (who are usually men) who program them. Her emphasis is on the impact that such bias has on marginalized communities via corporate business and law enforcement.
The film was based upon or sparked from the work of a Ph.D. student Joy Buolamwini, who started to perform experiments on the AI technology later receiving difficulty scanning her face. This showed this technology has trouble scanning women rather than men. These problems triggered her to take a course of action and serve as both a wake-up call and a call to action.
Once Joy creates a gender bias, she continues to investigate the same programs for evidence of race-based bias as well. She proclaims that the problem with the A.I. technology can be found in the lazy or egocentric thinking of the coders themselves. The homogenous culture of Silicon Valley is a dead giveaway: The software under scrutiny is designed almost only by men, who don’t necessarily take other identities into consideration when setting the basic parameters of their programs. Are the creators aware of the prejudice within their tech? Do they even care? These are questions we need to ask ourselves and others when looking into this technology because it is everywhere. It's in our streets its in our hands and its everywhere in our world. Questions like those asked above need to be answered before they are let into our lives on a daily basis sometimes without our consent or knowledge.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/02/08/770174171/when-bias-is-coded-into-our-technology
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