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Algorithmic Justice League among Fast Company's most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2020/2021 — MIT Media Lab
webAnnounces Fast Company's recognition of the Algorithmic Justice League for its work auditing AI systems for racial and gender bias, highlighting Joy Buolamwini's research exposing facial recognition disparities — directly relevant to AI fairness, accountability, and governance.
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MIT Media Lab announces that the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), founded by Joy Buolamwini, was named one of Fast Company's 10 most innovative AI companies. AJL audits AI systems for racial and gender bias, building on Buolamwini's research showing facial recognition algorithms perform significantly worse on dark-skinned female faces. AJL's advocacy contributed to Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft pausing facial recognition development.
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- •AJL recognized by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative AI companies for 2020/2021.
- •Founded by Joy Buolamwini, AJL audits AI systems for racial, gender, and other forms of bias.
- •Buolamwini's research showed facial recognition algorithms are significantly less accurate for dark-skinned female faces.
- •AJL's advocacy helped convince Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft to halt facial recognition algorithm development.
- •The nonprofit works to expose how algorithms can encode and amplify societal biases.
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Algorithmic Justice League among Fast Company's most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2020/2021
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Joy Buolamwini
by Sarah Beckmann
March 16, 2021
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Former Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League; Former Director's Circle Member
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Fast Company has listed the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), a nonprofit founded by PhD student Joy Buolamwini, as one of the 10 most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2020/2021. AJL has been recognized for its work in crusading against programmatic bias, especially as more companies begin incorporating machine learning and other technology within their business strategies.
The Algorithmic Justice League analyzes and publicizes the way in which algorithms can encode bias even more deeply into society; the nonprofit is specifically dedicated to auditing AI systems and making sure they are free from racial, gender, and other kinds of bias. Based on founder Joy Buolamwini’s pioneering research that exposed how facial-recognition algorithms from top tech companies are significantly better at detecting light-skinned male faces as compared to dark-skinned female faces, AJL’s advocacy has helped convince giants like Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft to hold back on developing facial-recognition algorithms.
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