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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
Genres:
Documentary
Release:
November 2020
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
Cast:
Joy Buolamwini, Cathy O'Neil, Meredith Broussard, Silkie Carlo, Virginia Eubanks, Ravi Naik, Safiya Umoja Noble, Zeynep Tufekci, Jim Jordan
Tags:
artificial intelligence (a.i.), silicon valley, civil rights, sexism, racism, sexual discrimination, racial discrimination, big brother, gafam, facial recognition, algorithm, mass surveillance
