Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

Joy Buolamwini's 2023 book is part memoir, part technical analysis, part manifesto. Starting from her discovery that facial recognition systems failed to detect her face until she wore a white mask, she traces how AI bias is created, how it is obscured, and what it takes to contest it. The book covers Gender Shades, the regulatory debates that followed, and the broader question of who AI is built for. Buolamwini's writing is accessible without being simplified — she explains the technical mechanisms of bias clearly while maintaining the human stakes at the centre.

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