Facial recognition is accurate, but only if you are a white man

The results show how some of the biases in the real world can seep into artificial intelligence

Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell the gender of a person in a photograph. When the person in the photo is a white man, the software is right 99 per cent of the time.
 
But the darker the skin, the more errors arise — up to nearly 35 per cent for images of darker skinned women, according to a new study that breaks fresh ground by measuring how the technology works on people of different races and gender.
 
These disparate results, calculated by Joy Buolamwini, a researcher at the