The next generation of AI is poisoned with bias against dark skin, Joy Buolamwini says. Artificial intelligence is increasingly affecting our lives in ways most of us haven't even thought about. Even if we don't have emotional androids plotting revenge on humankind (yet), we're surrounded more and more by computers trained to look us over and make life-changing decisions about us. Some of the brightest minds in technology--including a hive of them clustered around Boston--are tinkering with machines designed to decide what kinds of ads we see, whether we get flagged by the police, whether we get a job, or even how long we spend behind bars. But they have a very big problem: Many of these systems don't work properly, or at all, for people with dark skin.