The issue isn鈥檛 that the technology itself is racist 鈥� instead, as Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, an Information Science PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder and one of the signatories of the letter told The Verge at the time, these technologies 鈥渁re reinforcing human biases鈥� and perpetuating inequality as a result.
Casey Fiesler: Over the past four years, as I鈥檝e studied online fandom platforms , I鈥檝e heard from thousands of AO3 users, some of whom have described the platform and the community that surrounds it as having literally saved their lives. In addition to teaching writing skills (with many writers going...
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, a researcher at University of Colorado Boulder who studies gender recognition algorithms, believes that the government should work toward actual policies to hold agencies accountable for their AI development, not just technical guidelines:
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