Amazons facial-analysis tool showed gender and race bias, says study (Engadget)

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Amazons facial-analysis tool showed gender and race bias, says study – Research suggests Amazons facial analysis algorithms have struggled with gender and racial bias. The MIT Media Lab found Rekognition had no trouble at all in correctly pinpointing the gender of lighter-skinned men but it classified women as men almost a fifth of the time and darker-skinned women as men on …