Coded Bias

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Cathy O'Neil · Joy Buolamwini · Silkie Carlo · Zeynep Tufekci · Ravi Naik · Safiya Umoja Noble · Shalini Kantayya · Meredith Broussard · Virginia Eubanks · Jim Jordan

Studios & networks

7th Empire Media · Chicken & Egg Films · Independent Lens · ITVS · JustFilms / Ford Foundation · Sundance Institute · The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant · Women Make Movies