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Coded Bias

2020 · 86 min

An urgent, clear-eyed explainer that makes invisible systems feel unsettlingly present, leaving you alert and a little uneasy about everyday technology.

Directed by
Shalini Kantayya
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Joy Buolamwini, Cathy O'Neil, Meredith Broussard
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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Directed by
Shalini Kantayya
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Joy Buolamwini, Cathy O'Neil, Meredith Broussard
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  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
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measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
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  • technology
  • race
  • gender
  • justice
  • power
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  • big city
  • workplace
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contemporary
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adult
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  • documentary
  • true story
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  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Genres
documentary
Directed by
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Written by
Shalini Kantayya
Starring
Joy Buolamwini, Cathy O'Neil, Meredith Broussard, Silkie Carlo, Virginia Eubanks, Ravi Naik, Safiya Umoja Noble, Zeynep Tufekci
Runtime
86 min
Country
United States of America, United Kingdom, China
Languages
Mandarin, English

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