Raji worked with
Joy Buolamwini at the
MIT Media Lab and
Algorithmic Justice League, where she audited commercial facial recognition technologies from Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Face++, and Kairos. They found that these technologies were significantly less accurate for darker-skinned women than for white men. With support from other top AI researchers and increased public pressure and campaigning, their work led IBM and Amazon to agree to support facial recognition regulation and later halt the sale of their product to police for at least a year. Raji also interned at machine learning startup
Clarifai, where she worked on a
computer vision model for flagging images. In 2019, Raji was a summer research fellow at
The Partnership on AI working on setting industry machine learning transparency standards and benchmarking norms. Raji was a Tech Fellow at the
AI Now Institute worked on algorithmic and AI auditing. Currently, she is a fellow at the
Mozilla Foundation researching algorithmic auditing and evaluation. She also took part in the 2026 documentary
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist directed by
Daniel Roher. == Awards ==