Listen to Joy outline her view that AI’s potential must be tempered with the acknowledgment that AI magnifies the flaws of its makers. It can reflect the biases of its creators and amplify discrimination, she argues. Joy believes that without regulation and public oversight, AI can compound the social inequalities that its advocates hope to overcome.

Joy Buolamwini is a computer scientist and digital activist at the MIT Media Lab, and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League.