Author: Timnit Gebru
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Digital Identity 
Saving Face: Investigating the Ethical Concerns of Facial Recognition Auditing
This paper explores design considerations and ethical tensions related to auditing of commercial facial processing technology.
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Automation + AI 
Closing the AI accountability gap: defining an end-to-end framework for internal algorithmic auditing
This paper introduces a framework for algorithmic auditing that supports artificial intelligence system development end-to-end, to be applied throughout the internal organization development lifecycle.
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Automation + AI 
A Human Rights-Based Approach to Responsible AI
This paper argues that a human rights framework could help orient the research on artificial intelligence away from machines and the risks of their biases, and towards humans and the risks to their rights, helping to center the conversation around who is harmed, what harms they face, and how those harms may be mitigated.
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Automation + AI 
Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification
Recent studies demonstrate that machine learning algorithms can discriminate based on classes like race and gender. This academic study presents an approach to evaluate bias present in automated facial analysis algorithms and datasets.