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Chalone cantia is the director of the new film coated by us, coming out on net flicks on april fifth. The film follows the work of joy bollanini, who's an m i t researcher. And she stumbles upon the fact that facial recognition doesn't see dark faces or women accurately. She believes this is where civil rights gets fought in the 20 first century.

The film Coded Bias follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini through her investigation of algorithmic discrimination, after she accidentally discovers that facial recognition technologies do not detect darker-skinned faces. Joy is joined on screen by experts in the field, researchers, activists, and involuntary victims of algorithmic injustice. Coded Bias was released on Netflix April 5, 2021, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year, and has been called “‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for Big Tech algorithms” by Fast Company magazine. We talk to director Shalini Kantayya about the impetus for the film and how to tackle the threats these challenges pose to civil rights while working towards more humane technology for all.