Projects

Uncover AI’s impact and harms through stories of AI harms and triumphs, along with a collection of resources for further learning.

The Gender Shades Project began in 2016 as the focus of Dr. Buolamwini’s MIT master’s thesis inspired by her struggles with face detection systems. In 2018, she and Dr. Timnit Gebru subsequently published the widely known Gender Shades paper.

The Community Reporting of Algorithmic System Harms (CRASH) project brings together key stakeholders for discovery, scoping, and iterative prototyping of tools to enable broader participation in the creation of more accountable, equitable, and less harmful AI systems.

#DRAGVSAI is a hands-on workshop that explores identity, gender presentation, face surveillance, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic harms

Inspired by Allison Koenecke’s research and the story of her exclusion, Joy Buolamwini wrote the spoken word poem “Voicing Erasure.” Participants include champions of women's empowerment and scholars.

Directed by Shalini Kantayya, Coded Bias illuminates the harms that AI poses over people's lives, especially minorities. Official Sundance Selection 2020.

A spoken word piece that highlights the ways in which artificial intelligence can misinterpret the images of iconic black women: Oprah, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and more.