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Coded Bias
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Title: Coded Bias

Release Date: 11 Nov 2020

Runtime: 1h 26m

Genre: Documentary

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

Production 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

Overview: 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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Average Vote: 7 (54 votes)

Cast

  • Herself: Joy Buolamwini
  • Herself: Cathy O'Neil
  • Herself: Meredith Broussard
  • Herself: Silkie Carlo
  • Herself: Virginia Eubanks
  • Himself: Ravi Naik
  • Herself: Safiya Umoja Noble
  • Herself: Zeynep Tufekci
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