Coded Bias

20201h 26min

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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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.

Released
November 11, 2020
Runtime
1h 26min
Director
Shalini Kantayya
Genre
Documentary
Language
English
Production
7th Empire Media, Independent Lens, ITVS, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Films, Women Make Movies, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant, Sundance Institute
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