Event
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
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