A Privacy Dustup at Microsoft Exposes Major Problems for A.I.

The most important datasets are rife with sexism and racism

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
Published in
9 min readJun 12, 2019

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Credit: Andrej Karpathy/Stanford

TThe results you get when you search for an image on Google have something in common with Siri’s ability to listen to your commands. And they each share DNA with the facial recognition projects rolling out to the world’s airports and beyond.

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Dave Gershgorn
OneZero

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.