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January 2023


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Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias

Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias

"Actionable Auditing Revisited," by Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Joy Buolamwini, examines how companies producing commercial facial classification software responded to the publication of the groundbreaking 2018 "Gender Shades" …


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Actionable Auditing Revisited: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products

Actionable Auditing Revisited

This paper investigates the commercial impact of Gender Shades, the first algorithmic audit of gender- and skin-type performance disparities in commercial facial analysis models.