I wanted to defend my view and show the intellectual case for algorithmic bias. The comments inspired the title “Algorithms aren’t racist, your face is just too dark” for an article I wrote shortly after the TED attention. My white mask experience gave me the context that computer vision systems may have some racial bias. My use of bias was based on the idea of disadvantaging or privileging one group or another on the basis of race. Of course people have biases, but as one commenter put it, “There is no bias on math algorithms [sic].” There was a common assumption that these math-based systems
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