Racial Bias in Facial Recognition Software - Algorithmia Blog

We've all heard about racial bias in artificial intelligence via the media, whether it's found in recidivism software or object detection that mislabels African American people as Gorillas. Due to the increase in the media attention, people have grown more aware that implicit bias occurring in people can affect the AI systems we build. Early this week, I was honored to give a talk on Racial Bias in Facial Recognition at PyCascades, a new regional Python conference. Last week I wrote a blog post on learning facial recognition through OpenFace where I went into deeper detail about both facial recognition and the OpenFace architecture, so if you want to give that a read through before checking out this talk, I highly encourage it. Using OpenFace as an example face recognition model, this talk will cover the basics of facial recognition and why it's important to have diverse datasets when building out a model.