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Coded Bias

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.

20201h 26mNRDocumentary

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About Coded Bias

Directors
Shalini Kantayya
Cast
Joy Buolamwini, Cathy O'Neil, Meredith Broussard, Silkie Carlo, Virginia Eubanks, Ravi Naik
Genres
Documentary
Content rating
NR
Original language
English
Production countries
United States of America, United Kingdom, China
Status
Released

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