A science show on robots inspired Buolamwini to set her sights on MIT, and before long, she’d learned to code. Yet her first run-in with the coded gaze came years before, as an undergrad at Georgia Tech, in the early 2010s, as she was working on an assignment she called Project Peekaboo. “The coded gaze borrows from the term male gaze and white gaze,” Buolamwini tells me. So what’s changed since she set out to address the coded gaze? “This is part of why I wrote the book,” Buolamwini says.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 03, 2023 00:49 UTC