[virtual movie night] Coded Bias

You can access the film through the PBS video app: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/coded-bias/

or through Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81328723

We'll connect through Slack throughout to discuss the film - if you are already in the Orlando Lady Devs slack, join us in the #coded-bias-movie-night channel, if you're not in our slack - join us here https://tinyurl.com/slack-lady-devs!

We'll hop in zoom afterwards to chat about the film at 9:30 PM - zoom line: https://tinyurl.com/jjje7j2j

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.

SYNOPSIS

Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies do not accurately detect darker-skinned faces or classify the faces of women, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. As it turns out, artificial intelligence is not neutral, and women are leading the charge to ensure our civil rights are protected.

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