Women and people of color are fighting many battles in the tech world and in the fast-growing world of artificial intelligence. The other panel member, Meredith Whittaker, a founder and a director of the AI Now Institute at New York University, noted that voice recognition tools that rely on A.I. often don’t recognize higher-pitched voices.
And, she said, it has been well publicized that facial recognition is far more accurate with lighter-skin men than with women and, especially, with darker-skin people.
That’s because if white men are used much more frequently to train A.I. software, it will much more easily recognize their voices and faces.
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