If you envision a scene from The Great Gatsby or any other F. Scott Fitzgerald tale of the Jazz Age, it probably would look like a painting by J.C. Leyendecker: a beautiful man in evening clothes ...

The film was sparked by the work of Joy Buolamwini, a PhD student at MIT who conducted facial recognition experiments using A.I. and had difficulty getting the technology to accurately process her ...

Shalini Kantayya has directed visually eye-catching and memorable work for both National Geographic TV with Breakthrough, a series profiling trailblazing scientists transforming the future) and the ...

"Racism is becoming mechanized." The official trailer has debuted for a documentary titled Coded Bias, which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Made by journalist / ...

A new documentary looks at the dangers of artificial intelligence and its increasing omnipresence in daily life, as new research shows that it often reflects racist biases. Earlier this month, ...

Code is supposed to be neutral. It’s not that lifelike, non-human, and binary codes and algorithms can’t be racist or sexist – they just are. But what if the algorithm written reflected the writer’s ...

In most American cities it’s fairly common for surveillance cameras to hover above busy intersections and perch behind cash registers. For a while, one of my neighbors had a few peering out of his ...

A scientist's discovery of racial and gender bias in facial recognition technology opens up an unsettling can of algorithmic worms in Shalini Kantayya's documentary wake-up call, 'Coded Bias.' By ...

Doc helmer Shalini Kantayya follows science student Joy Buolamwini on her journey to prove inherent gender and racial bias within facial recognition programs used by law enforcement. By its very ...