Meet Joy Buolamwini: The 'Poet of Code' Who Forced Big Tech to Face Its Bias Problem

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗺𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗶: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 '𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲' 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺

From an MIT Media Lab researcher to a Congressional witness to a literal movie star, Joy Buolamwini has done more to expose racial and gender bias in facial recognition AI than perhaps anyone on the planet. Her nonprofit, the Algorithmic Justice League, is reshaping how companies and governments think about deploying AI — and she's just getting started.