Can Apple’s iPhone X Beat Facial Recognition’s Bias Problem?

Joy Buolamwini once built a robot that could play peekaboo. But there was just one problem: It couldn’t see her. Buolamwini is black, and the facial-recognition software she used couldn’t recognize her face. The software worked well enough with lighter-skinned people, so Buolamwini moved on to other projects. “[I] figured, you know what, somebody else …

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