Still from Coded Bias. A woman holds a white mask up to her face and facial recognition software writes 'face detected.'
Coded Bias
Still from Coded Bias
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Directed by

Shalini Kantayya

Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her subsequent journey to push for the first-ever US legislation to govern against bias in artificial intelligence. The documentary aims to shine a light on the threat artificial intelligence poses to civil rights and democracy.

Coded Bias is a participant of Project: Hatched 2020.

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