Nov 11, 2020
86 min
Full-HD

Coded Bias (2020)

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.

Category

Documentary

Country

China United Kingdom United States of America

Companies

7th Empire Media Independent Lens ITVS JustFilms / Ford Foundation Chicken & Egg Films Women Make Movies The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant Sundance Institute

Joy Buolamwini

Herself

Cathy O'Neil

Herself

Meredith Broussard

Herself

Silkie Carlo

Herself

Virginia Eubanks

Herself

Ravi Naik

Himself

Safiya Umoja Noble

Herself

Zeynep Tufekci

Herself

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