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Coded Bias

{\an1}That's when the epiphany...This algorithm is a lie

[dramatic music] {\an1}That's when the epiphany...
This algorithm is a lie

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{\an1}That's when the epiphany... This algorithm is a lie.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:52:40
Uploaded
May 26, 2025
Genres
documentary
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

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When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact...
{\an1}And that's when I began to investigate it - Coded Bias 00:06
{\an1}And that's when I began to investigate it
{\an1}- We are announcing that late yesterday we filed suit - Coded Bias 00:10
{\an1}- We are announcing that late yesterday we filed suit
{\an1}- The Houston Federation of Teachers - Coded Bias 00:05
{\an1}- The Houston Federation of Teachers
If this can happen to Mr. Santos - Coded Bias 00:07
If this can happen to Mr. Santos
And so we sued based upon the 14th Amendment. - Coded Bias 00:05
And so we sued based upon the 14th Amendment.
How can you arrive at a conclusion - Coded Bias 00:07
How can you arrive at a conclusion
{\an1}[speaking indistinctly] - Coded Bias 00:05
{\an1}[speaking indistinctly]
{\an1}There are still communities, - Coded Bias 00:16
{\an1}There are still communities,
[speaking Spanish] - Coded Bias 00:06
[speaking Spanish]
- A judge said that their due process rights - Coded Bias 00:12
- A judge said that their due process rights
{\an1}But I don't understand why that legal decision - Coded Bias 00:07
{\an1}But I don't understand why that legal decision
{\an1}Like, why aren't we using that same argument, - Coded Bias 00:18
{\an1}Like, why aren't we using that same argument,
{\an1}- Sometimes I misclassify and cannot be questioned. - Coded Bias 00:06
{\an1}- Sometimes I misclassify and cannot be questioned.
I was optimized for efficiency. - Coded Bias 00:06
I was optimized for efficiency.
{\an1}There is no algorithm to define what is just. - Coded Bias 00:05
{\an1}There is no algorithm to define what is just.
[soft tense music] - Coded Bias 00:10
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The instrument uses an algorithm - Coded Bias 00:11
The instrument uses an algorithm
- The algorithm that kept me up at night - Coded Bias 00:05
- The algorithm that kept me up at night
{\an1}These are algorithms that judges are given - Coded Bias 00:06
{\an1}These are algorithms that judges are given
But then there's the question of fairness, - Coded Bias 00:07
But then there's the question of fairness,