Is Bias Coded Into AI? A New Documentary Screams Yes And Wants Legislation To Change It.

Slated as an exploration of the fallout from a startling discovery that AI-driven facial recognition software could not detect her face, the documentary ‘Coded Bias’ chronicles Joy Buolamwini’s journey in seeking U.S. legislation to govern against bias in the algorithms that have become so ubiquitous in our current lives and will only become more so in the future. Buolamwini work as a researcher at MIT took her down a path to learn what inputs were fed into the AI system, that have resulted in darker-skinned faces and those of women not being accurately recognized by facial recognition.