Inioluwa Deborah Raji

Inioluwa Deborah Raji coauthored Actionable Auditing with Joy Buolamwini.^[1]

The participant’s perspective

In RE•WORK’s February 3, 2021 published Q&A, Raji describes noticing missing representation in training data during an internship and reaching out to Buolamwini. She discusses internal and external auditors’ different circumstances, and says facial recognition can be harmful “even when it does work”. This is her account and perspective, not an independently reconstructed workplace incident.^[2]

A reading route

Start with the original audit, then the follow-up’s methods and limitations. Compare the arrest case to ask whether a benchmark answers the question an institution needs answered. Social Alignment asks whose interests determine acceptable use; Safety Case asks how evidence supports a deployment claim.

The interview is preserved as the publisher’s written Q&A. No full recording or current institutional-role claim is inferred from it.