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Coded Bias: Screening + Discussion with Filmmaker 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.

April 1, 2021

4:00 p.m.

Online Event

Event Poster - 2021 Spring - Coded Bias: Screening + Discussion with Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya - See event page for details

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 KantayyaMeredith 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

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