Coded Bias

Coded Bias

2020 · 86 min · EN · 7.4 (41 votes)
Dir. Shalini Kantayya · Starring Joy Buolamwini, Cathy O'Neil, Meredith Broussard, Silkie Carlo, Virginia Eubanks, Ravi Naik
Documentary

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

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A chillingly clear-eyed look at how AI can perpetuate societal harms. It feels like a vital, urgent wake-up call, exposing the hidden biases in the technology that increasingly governs our lives and demanding accountability.

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