Nabiha Syed writes: “Often, our data is extracted invisibly, harvested in the background while we go about our day. Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises the stakes because now that data is not only used to make decisions about you, but rather to make deeply powerful inferences about people and communities. [Computer scientist] Joy Buolamwini is someone who has been thinking about collective harm and AI for years. Keep reading to learn more about ‘the excoded,’ facial recognition at the airport, and whether we are ‘living in the age of the last masters.’”