A review by shays
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Part memoir and part social and scientific commentary, Unmasking AI follows computer scientist and self-titled Poet of Code Joy Buolamwini through her graduate studies at MIT, beginning in 2015. Buolamwini’s memoir draws to the fore the focus on the technical rather than the ethical in the field of computer science. Ethics are not a taught as a core part of the discipline, and projects that use human faces have not traditionally been subject to human subject board review. Buolamwini lays out her thesis work for a lay audience, but she is perhaps at her best when she allows herself to indulge in poetic language and descriptions that evoke the emotional rather than merely factual impacts of being invisible. 

Full review: https://shayshortt.com/2024/01/09/unmasking-ai/