60 Minutes Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Facial recognition report === On May 16, 2021, [[Anderson Cooper]]'s story in ''60 Minutes'' on the flaws in facial recognition technology used by the police resulting in incorrect identification of people of color received backlash for denying credit to the black female researchers who pioneered the field. The segment was criticized by the [[Algorithmic Justice League]] for "deliberately excluding the groundbreaking and award-winning work of prominent black women AI researchers [[Joy Buolamwini]], [[Timnit Gebru|Dr. Timnit Gebru]], and [[Deborah Raji|Inioluwa Deborah Raji]]".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Black Women Did The Work. Then They Were Denied The Credit.|url=https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/black-women-did-the-work-then-they-were-denied-the-credit|access-date=2021-05-22|website=OrganizeFor|language=en-US}}</ref> The segment was called out for its hypocrisy for failing to credit black women for their pioneering work in a segment highlighting how facial recognition software often leaves out black, Asian, and female faces. CBS later issued a statement explaining that these researchers were not included due to time restrictions of the segment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=An editor's note on our report, "Facial Recognition"|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facial-recognition-editor-note/|access-date=2021-05-22|website=CBS News|date=May 18, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page