APRIL 1 | 4PM | “CODED BIAS” SCREENING + DISCUSSION

Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s 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. Post-screening discussion with director Shalini Kantayya,  Meredith Broussard (NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute) and Marcel Rosa-Salas (University of Illinois, Chicago). 
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SCREENING + DISCUSSION: CODED BIAS (2020, 90 mins, Director: Shalini Kantayya) 
 

Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s 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.

Post-screening discussion with Coded Bias director Shalini Kantayya,  Meredith Broussard (NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute) and Marcel Rosa-Salas (University of Illinois, Chicago).  

 

Co-sponsors: NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture