5 Questions for Joy Buolamwini: Why AI should Move Slow and Fix Things

Joy Buolamwini, an AI researcher, first made waves with a TED talk in which Buolamwini, who is Black, showed that facial detection systems didn't detect her face unless she put on a white mask. She's also the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League. Buolamwini's new book, Unmasking AI, reminds engineers that default settings are not neutral, that convenient datasets may be rife with ethical and legal problems, and that benchmarks aren't always assessing the right things.