Discovery Place Charlotte, NC
Steven Tiell
Senior Principal - Responsible Innovation, Accenture
Coded Bias— Breaking down bias
Program Description
Is your vision of artificial intelligence utopian or dystopian? It might depend on your gender or the color of your skin. Digital ethics expert Steven Tiell looks at the digital bias that surrounds us. Presented as part of the 2021 National Evening of Science on Screen.
Presented At
Discovery Place Charlotte, NC
Film Synopsis
An exploration of the implications of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that racial bias is written into the code of facial recognition algorithms.
Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that most facial-recognition software does not accurately identify darker-skinned faces and the faces of women, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. As it turns out, AI is not neutral, and women are leading the charge to ensure our civil rights are protected.
Image courtesy of Shalini Kantayya
About the Speaker
Steven Tiell leads Accenture's work in responsible innovation and digital ethics.