Computer scientist Joy Buolamwini coined the term the "coded gaze" while in grad school at MIT. As a brown-skinned woman, the facial recognition software program she was working on couldn't detect her face until she put on a white mask. She's written a book about the potential harms of AI — which include the social implications of bias and how it affects everyone. Also, we'll talk about UFO conspiracy theories with journalist Garrett Graff. He talks with us about how they've led to other conspiracy theories about the government. And Justin Chang will review the latest film by Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, The Boy and the Heron. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
On the Ted radio hour, linguist Ann Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is the history behind words causing a lot of debate.
That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
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Computer scientist Joy Bulamwini.
She coined the term the coded gaze while in grad school at MIT as a brown skinned woman.
The facial recognition software program she was working on couldn't detect her face until she put on a white mask.
I just didn't think it would be so literal where I was changing my dark skinned face to be made visible by a machine, and I thought the last place I would be coding in white face would be MIT.
She's written a book about the potential harms of AI, which include the social implications of bias and how it affects everyone.
Also, we'll talk about UFO conspiracy theories with journalist Garrett Graff.
He talks with us about how they've led to other conspiracy theories about the government.
And Justin Chang will review the latest film by japanese animator Haiyao Miyazaki that's coming up on Fresh Air weekend.
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You've probably heard of the male gaze or the white gaze, but what about the coded gaze?
Computer scientist Joy Bologna coined the term while in grad school at MIT as a brown skinned black woman.