https://qz.com/1208581/diversity-and-bias-in-ai-has-reached-us-congress/ >While studying artificial intelligence during the 1990s for his Ph.D. at MIT, Charles Isbell broke the software some of his friends were working on. >“I was breaking all of their facial recognition software because apparently all the pictures they were taking were of people with significantly less melanin than I have,” Isbell, now executive associate dean at the Georgia Institute of Technology, told a hearing of Congressional Subcommittee of Information Technology today. “And so they had to come up with ways around the problem—of me.” While the facial recognition algorithm worked for his lighter-skinned peers, it couldn’t recognize his darker complexion. It’s not a unique problem; in 2015, a Google algorithm classified faces of black people as gorillas.