Movie
Coded Bias
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2020-11-11
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 7th Empire Media, Independent Lens, ITVS, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Films, Women Make Movies, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant, Sundance Institute
- Country
- United States of America, United Kingdom, China
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Joy Buolamwini as Self
- Cathy O'Neil as Self
- Meredith Broussard as Self
- Silkie Carlo as Self
- Virginia Eubanks as Self
- Ravi Naik as Self
- Safiya Umoja Noble as Self
- Zeynep Tufekci as Self
- Jim Jordan as Self
Crew
- Shalini Kantayya - Director
- Shalini Kantayya - Writer
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