Coded Bias
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.
- genus: Documentary
- Studio: 7th Empire Media, Independent Lens, ITVS, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Films, Women Make Movies, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant, Sundance Institute
- keyword: artificial intelligence (a.i.), silicon valley, civil rights, sexism, racism, sexual discrimination, racial discrimination, big brother, gafam, facial recognition, algorithm, mass surveillance
- cast: Joy Buolamwini, Cathy O'Neil, Meredith Broussard, Silkie Carlo, Virginia Eubanks, Ravi Naik