Disability and AI Bias

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC
6 min readJul 11, 2019

Researchers/legislation are focused on AI Bias with respect to gender and race. Few people are examining AI bias with respect to disability.

Four cartoon images of business people of different genders and races, each holding a white face mask partially covering their faces

In May, San Francisco passed an ordinance banning the city government from using facial recognition technology.

  • The primary concern exhibited by almost every group lobbying for or considering this type of legislation is gender or race discrimination.

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Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

LinkedIn Top Voice for Social Impact 2022. UX Collective Author of the Year 2020. Disability Inclusion SME. Sr Staff Accessibility Architect @ VMware.