The issue isnāt that the technology itself is racist ā instead, as Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, an Information Science PhD student at the ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Boulder and one of the signatories of the letter told The Verge at the time, these technologies āare reinforcing human biasesā and perpetuating inequality as a result.
Casey Fiesler: Over the past four years, as Iāve studied online fandom platforms , Iāve heard from thousands of AO3 users, some of whom have described the platform and the community that surrounds it as having literally saved their lives. In addition to teaching writing skills (with many writers going...
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, a researcher at ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Boulder who studies gender recognition algorithms, believes that the government should work toward actual policies to hold agencies accountable for their AI development, not just technical guidelines:
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