There's a fascinating juxtaposition in Shalini Kantayya's cautionary documentary Coded Bias. The engaging principal guide in this journey through our 21st century algorithmic hellscape is Joy Buolamwini, a young African American MIT Media Lab researcher who discovered that most facial recognition software is wildly inaccurate when it comes to darker-skinned faces and those of women.
Her evolution from robotics geek to scientist to activist, addressing Congress about the urgent need for regulation in this Wild West field, gives the film an inspiring throughline.
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