Abstract
Artificial intelligence services are increasingly accessible to businesses and governments of all kinds, being applied to surveillance systems, social media platforms and other types of artificial agents. One of its emerging applications in popularity is computer vision, which allows the automatic recognition of objects, entities, concepts or features extracted from images, including people. The article presents mapping of public cases of racist manifestations of computer vision applications in the last years, read under the lens of Critical Racial Theory and Whiteness Studies. Analyzing practices of visibility and invisibility of black people in the databases and processing of computer vision resources, the article discusses how categories and typologies are manifestations of how informational records configure and reproduce power, with real impact on the possibilities of fair representation and expression between different segments of society.
Highlights
Artificial intelligence services are increasingly accessible to businesses and governments of all kinds, being applied to surveillance systems, social media platforms and other types of artificial agents
Sua iniciativa evoca os projetos da Teoria Racial Crítica que propõe como um dos seus pilares o conhecimento experiencial na pesquisa e na práxis buscando se associar a conhecimento criado por grupos minorizados para “revelar os modos pelos quais raça, classe, gênero e outras formas de opressão interagem para mediar as experiências e realidades daqueles afetados por tais opressões” (MALAGON, HUBER & VELEZ, p.264, trad. livre)
Tanto os problemas identificados como parte da reação dos desenvolvedores quando contestados, mostram que “a hegemonia da brancura presente em todos os âmbitos sociais não colabora para que os indivíduos brancos passem a questionar seus privilégios bem como se importar com as desvantagens impostas aos demais grupos” (BASTOS, 2016, p.227)
Summary
Artificial intelligence services are increasingly accessible to businesses and governments of all kinds, being applied to surveillance systems, social media platforms and other types of artificial agents. Defendemos que os estudos sobre a branquitude são uma chave importante para entender os modos pelos quais as tecnologias automatizadas demonstram continuamente vieses racistas, mesmo provenientes de empresas globais bilionárias com todo aparato tecnológico-
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