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

Coded Bias (2020, 90 mins, Director: Shalini Kantayya) 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. Discussion follows screening with director Shalini Kantayya, Meredith Broussard (NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute), and Marcel Rosa-Salas (University of Illinois, Chicago).  
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THURSDAY | APRIL 1 | 4PM
 
 
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