Joy Buolamwini

CTL-E-1062 · Institution · other · 2010s–present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

MIT Media Lab researcher whose 2018 Gender Shades study documented severe racial and gender accuracy disparities in commercial facial recognition; founder of the Algorithmic Justice League.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-054; source research type(s): None.

Sources

https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/joy-buolamwini/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Buolamwini
https://www.klover.ai/timnit-gebru/

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