Inclusion Crisis in Silican Valley

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i think we have a moon shot to call for greater ethics in these technologies that will define the future. And i really think that there should be some sort of process of ethesus and policy makers and other people in the room before these technologies are deployed at scale. When you have less than 14 % women b a i developers, i think half the genius of the room is missing. I feel like having those kinds of inclusive teams are really important. It's kind of astounding to me that three black women scientists, who were all graduate students at the time, somehow found bias in commercially available technologies such as amazon ibm and microsop misst.

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.