Coded Bias

Series/Themes: Virtual Screening

Genre: Documentaries

Film Year: 2020

Locations: United States, United Kingdom, China

Film Length: 90 min.

Languages: English

Director: Shalini Kantayya

Director Shalini Kantayya explores two major questions at the forefront of modern society: What does it mean when artificial intelligence increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? This gripping documentary follows the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that most facial-recognition software frequently fails to identify darker-skinned faces and women’s faces. What emerges is a group of rebels and misfits–female mathematicians and data scientists–who are fighting for these technologies’ ethical use.

Supported by Crutchfield Corporation

Coded Bias is part of the Women in Film Series supported by Virginia Commission for the Arts & National Endowment for the Arts

Wednesday, October 21
10:00 AM
Virtual Screening
Add To Calendar 20201021 10:00 20201021 23:59 America/New_York VFF: Coded Bias

Director Shalini Kantayya explores two major questions at the forefront of modern society: What does it mean when artificial intelligence increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? This gripping documentary follows the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that most facial-recognition software frequently fails to identify darker-skinned faces and women’s faces. What emerges is a group of rebels and misfits–female mathematicians and data scientists–who are fighting for these technologies’ ethical use.

Supported by Crutchfield Corporation

Coded Bias is part of the Women in Film Series supported by Virginia Commission for the Arts & National Endowment for the Arts

 Virtual Screening Virginia Film Festival info@virginiafilmfestival.org

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