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.
Direction
Kantayya turns data science into gripping activist cinema.
Writing
Buolamwini's 'coded gaze' concept reframes the entire AI debate.
Production
Rare access to legislative hearings and dystopian real-world tests.
Director
Shalini Kantayya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joy Buolamwini's 2018 testimony before Congress directly influenced the Algorithmic Accountability Act introduced that same year.
The film predicted 2020's racial reckoning in tech; by 2023, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon had all paused or ended facial recognition sales to police.
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