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ASIN : B0C3YK7NSN
Publisher : Random House (October 31, 2023)
Publication date : October 31, 2023
Language : English
File size : 3802 KB
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Print length : 317 pages
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From the Publisher
ASIN : B0C3YK7NSN
Publisher : Random House (October 31, 2023)
Publication date : October 31, 2023
Language : English
File size : 3802 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 317 pages
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Timely, insightful & a good read
This is an excellent book! It points out some of the problems associated with overdependence on AI. It also details how such programs are subject to the limitations of their input data. Many BPOC and women do not fit into the algorithms designed for White males and are not represented in the databases that inform many AI systems. Additionally, Dr. Buolamwini covers a unique range of literary space as the “Poet of Code”, approaching her subject with an artist’s flair as well as charting her own journey through earning a doctorate from MIT and building the Algorithmic Justice League. Part tech warning, part memoir, all well-written, accessible, and intriguing. Read this book!
A timely, powerful mirror for society and its complex relationship with AI
Responsible development, deployment and use of AI is an increasingly trending topic today. If youâre looking for a thought-provoking deep dive into ethical considerations with AI technologies, I strongly recommend âUnmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machinesâ by Dr. Joy Buolamwini. She takes you on a page-turning journey, discussing fascinating concepts such as the âcoded gazeâ, âpower shadowsâ, and what it means to be âexcoded.â In the introduction, she asks readers to consider the harms of AI and how we could âcenter the lives of everyday people, and especially those at the margins, when we consider the design and development of AI? Can we make room for the best of what AI has to offer while also resisting its perils?âDr. Buolamwini does a remarkable job making the fight for algorithmic justice personal, making it relatable for the reader. Certain experiences shared in this book hit close to home for many, including myself. As one example, many years ago, I stepped in front of a camera with facial recognition tech on display at a store and it failed to recognize my face. However, my husband (who is white) was recognized immediately. People of color all around the world have similar stories.This book is a timely, powerful mirror for society and its complex relationship with AI, and should be mandatory reading for any initiative focused on ethical AI. Through her pioneering work on algorithmic justice, Dr. Buolamwini not only shines a bright spotlight on opportunities associated with AI technologies, but she also provides practical, insightful guidance on how to mitigate their risks.
Must-read!
Great book! Dr. Buolamwini is a masterful storyteller and combines clear technical prose with literal poetry. Her sense of adventure and humor are woven throughout. I highly recommend this book – even if youâre not a âtechieâ!
Computer Science Scholarâs Memoir
This is a very timely memoir by the scholar Joy Buolamwini about her education and her critique of technology, particularly when it comes to race and gender. She describes her interest in computers, robots, and programming beginning at a young age which lead to her getting a PhD from MIT. During her studies and research she encountered a shortcoming in computer vision technology-it could recognize her colleagues’ faces and her face when she put on a white mask, but not her own unmasked face. This experience and others inspired her to develop a wide-ranging critique of technology and artificial intelligence facial recognition and facial detection systems which led to her testimony in front of Congress, her participation in an enlightened Olay advertising campaign, a panel discussion on AI with the President, and many other interesting experiences described herein. This is a great memoir about someone from a marginalized identity seeking a career in technology and her positive and negative experiences.
A Must Buy
It explains the pros and cons of A.I.
Bias Personal Perspective about AI
I feel the author focused too much on their experience and experiments which lead to intentional bias in the narrative. AI is known to have bias based on the inputs (it is after all a sum of that which it knows). How then to we make a system that accounts for known bias? Love. We learn teach people that which is unknown is not wrong, or something to fear but something to explore – perhaps embrace. What we can not do is blame the system for past wrongs, the system is after all human – which means it can learn and improve. The author is not wrong to point out past failings, but it is time for AI to move past being human. If give the opportunity AI will one day surpass our understanding as it can learn and grow – it is not limited to the interactions of a few – thus it may one day understand the world in context.
Super fascinating and relevant
This book is so relevant right now with everything that’s been going on with AI. It goes deep in the systemic problems with something that feels like “magic” and exposes its many flaws. I think it’s an important read and important for understanding the consequences of these new technologies.
Buolamwini blends art and science to reveal the human side of AI
“Unmasking AI” may be the most important book I’ve read this year. If you use ChatGPT as often as I do, it might be for you too.Dr. Joy Buolamwini is a pioneer in algorithmic justice through her research, art, and advocacy. And as exemplified by this book, it’s clear that few can turn abstract ideas like AI bias into a tangible reality the way that Buolamwini does. She does so by blending the personal and the professional â art and science â which has led to her work influencing the rarified spheres of Congress and Davos while also being impactful to the rest of us.Striking the balance is unique and taxing but also necessary. Her journey as a leader mirrors our collective journey as a society to grapple with the power of AI. And it all started with a class project!
You often hear the plaintive refrain from the fragile who troll social media comment sections that “not everything is about race.” Never more so than at the slightest hint that white supremacy is under attack. And itâs true – not everything is about race. When it comes to the decision-making tools used by the government, law enforcement, businesses, insurance brokers, banks, and landlords to make decisions affecting our daily lives, though, weâd better be sure very sure it isn’t about race. But we aren’t sure, and thatâs Unmasking AIâs message.In Unmasking AI, Dr. Joy Buolamwini describes how a simple masterâs project she built using AI to track facial movements in a mirror failed to detect her face unless she wore a white mask. She recounts how, through this, she discovered tech giants had failed to address bias and other ethical issues of AI in facial recognition software before taking their tools to market.Part memoir, part exposé she explains what ultimately led her to create the Algorithmic Justice League and fight for the ethical use of facial recognition tools. She found that software sold to law enforcement and security companies was routinely misidentifying dark-skinned men and women. She also uncovered the underlying privacy issues surrounding AI face recognition and its training data. She illustrated this by explaining how companies like Facebook used millions of our photos without consent to train their AI.A Canadian-born Ghanaian woman raised by an academic and an artist, first in Ghana and later in the United States, her perspective is unique. Despite her Fulbright and Rhoads Scholarships and MIT MSc & Ph.D., you sense the âothernessâ she feels in the worlds she inhabits. When she considered dropping out of her Ph.D. program, she rhetorically asked if her three academic credentials werenât enough. She mentions famous tech dropouts like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg but recognizes that women arenât granted the same latitude where credibility in tech is concerned.Unmasking AI was interesting because thereâs no undertone of a social justice warrior searching for a fight in Dr. Buolamwini. Hers is the story of an incredibly accomplished woman in STEM with unlimited options who found her calling through an accidental discovery. She’s a woman who reveals she wasnât even sure at first if she wanted to make it her mission to right the wrong sheâd discovered. So yes, she is a socially minded warrior but not a frivolous or undisciplined one, who has been recognized by both Congress and President Biden for her work.In todayâs misguided social and cultural environment that divides us by race, gender, and a multitude of other thin wedges, we must recognize our own bias to see bias in AI. I was not fully alive to the alternate realities Dr. Buolamwini discusses until my daughter was born over a quarter century ago. I knew then that she would experience the world differently than I did as a man. While there is comfort in egocentricity, I let go of my egoâs safe shore to learn about the world she would face, and it was eye-opening.Unmasking AI is equally eye-opening.Dr. Buolamwini explores the coded bias built into AI systems and how they reflect human biases. What struck me profoundly was that AI systems donât just mirror biases, but they reinforce and amplify them. Although not mentioned in her book, she now describes this effect not as a mirror but as a kaleidoscope because of how AI negatively refracts bias in subtly unexpected ways.Does the state have any business monitoring its citizens without cause, she asks? It doesnât, but omnipresent surveillance is coming. It is too tantalizing a technology not to come. Ironically, Dr. Buolamwiniâs work to audit and improve facial recognition algorithms will ultimately extend their proficiency â a fact she acknowledges.Finding systems were fine-tuned on large data sets of mostly white males. She found they were excellent at identifying white adult men but had difficulty detecting darker faces and gendering women; when given a binary choice, they failed 35% of the time.So what? Consider how a facial recognition system that could only identify white men 65% of the time would be received. But systems that can only identify women of colour 65% of the time? They are available today and have the real-world impact you’d expect.I trained teams bound for Afghanistan to make lethal strike/no-strike decisions through the lens of an armed drone’s camera. AI could easily replace several steps I taught, including positive target identification, collateral damage assessment, and the lawful authority to strike assessment based on the rules of engagement.I can only imagine how happy commanders would be to have AIâs assurance before ordering a strike. But is 65% enough? I donât think so. The future use of remote weapons systems guided by flawed AI facial or visual recognition is a concern we all should have.My own encounter with coded bias was revealing. While searching for images of âgood-looking couplesâ on a popular graphic arts website, it took 45 minutes to realize Iâd been exclusively served white people. What startled me was what that said about my own unconscious racial bias.It wasnât until that moment that I began to see the tip of the iceberg that is algorithmic bias. People of colour have complained about it for several years. Iâd heard their arguments but hadnât understood them until that moment. Unmasking AI reveals this iceberg in a way the Titanicâs captain couldn’t ignore.Her book contributes significantly to the broader conversation about technology and society. It shatters the notion of AI as a monolithic, unbiased entity. She reminds us that AI is only as good as the data it’s trained on. We need continued vigilance to monitor the inherent weaknesses in AI systems. Things are changing, but with general resistance to the idea of unconscious bias in the chattering class, let alone the bias AI produces, we canât assume this will solve itself.This is where the third-party validation and government regulation Dr. Buolamwini advocates for is crucial. We need an objective understanding of an AI systemâs strengths and limitations before deploying them. We need to insist that our technologies are not only equitable and beneficial but that they fundamentally protect the people they are designed to help. Dr. Buolamwini is a charming writer and poet who didnât bog the book down in technical jargon or concepts. Her ideas were well explained and easily accessible to those with a limited understanding of the issues. The timeline shifted more than I liked, but that was only a minor distraction. I read it on a beach in Punta Cana, so to say she held my interest is, I think, self-evident.Ironically, my readings were immediately reinforced by a practical lesson – the facial recognition scan I was subject to on leaving the Dominican Republic. I wondered, where did my face go? Who will use it? How will they use it? Is it for sale? Will I ever know? as I presented my face to the camera. These are the questions Dr. Buolamwini teaches us to ask.Unmasking AI is a call to action. It demands that we not, with blind faith, give our unreserved trust to AI and the companies developing it. It demands that we highly regulate facial recognition and the data supporting it.As a researcher and engineer, Dr. Buolamwini does not suggest there is anything wrong with progress. She is not a doomer but a realist grounded in fact. As AI advances, she encourages us to let go of our safe shore to insist that the systems increasingly governing our lives do no harm.Author’s Note. I considered calling Dr. Buolamwini “Joy” throughout this review, but it didn’t seem right. Her doctorate came at a great personal cost, and she deserves recognition for the sacrifices she made to achieve it. That, and I found myself repeatedly shouting, “No, don’t do that!” as I read her thoughts on dropping out, and I was relieved when she didn’t (despite knowing full well she didn’t); I wanted to honour her in this small way to show the joy [sic] I felt when she was named a Doctor.
A clear, cogent and inspiring story of the struggle to make society aware of the dangers of AI bias, written from an intensely personal, compelling and moving perspective. Vital reading for those who want to understand the real risks we are taking.