From the archive · Friday, 28 August 2026

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Paper2018

Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification

Joy Buolamwini & Timnit Gebru

Auditing commercial face classifiers by skin tone and gender together, rather than one at a time, exposes error rates an order of magnitude worse for darker-skinned women.

Level: Intermediate
Access: Free
Length: —
Copy: link checked 17 Sept 2026
Filed under: AI Ethics, Policy & Society

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