Is There an Inclusion Crisis?

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I wonder sometimes what it would mean to design technology, not for efficiency, but around the inherent value of every human being. And that could mean that we need a slower approach to technology. I don't think here in the us even know what a i for public good could look like. Are speaking our language on so many levels. There's an imagination gap. In part this is due to an inclusion crisis, that the other minds, the other possibilities, are not present. It's about building a more humane society and changing our entire way of what the technology is doing,. Instead of us being, for better words, ike enslaved by our technology, to its click bait and to its

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.