On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we welcome Algorithmic Justice League founder Joy Buolamwini. Her organization's mission is to highlight algorithmic bias through media, art and science, to provide space for people to voice concerns and experiences with coded bias and to develop practices for accountability during the design, development, and deployment of coded systems. 

In her efforts to document bias and restore trust to technology, Buolamwini recently delivered a presentation to the Federal Trade Commission with her MIT thesis “Findings on Gender and Racial Bias in Facial Analysis Technology” developed from IBM, Microsoft, and other cognitive service technologies. Their ultimate effect if unchecked can be a cycle of computer-generated discrimination.