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Coded Bias(2020)
Status: Released
Date: 2020-11-11
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56 Votes
Time: 1h 26m
Overview:
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.
Languages: Mandarin, English.
Countries:
United States of America,
United Kingdom,
China
ProductionCompanies: 
7th Empire Media
Independent Lens
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant
Movie: Coded Bias
Top 9 Billed Cast
Joy Buolamwini
Self
Silkie Carlo
Self
Ravi Naik
Self
Jim Jordan
Self
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