Coded Bias Free Virtual Screening and Online Panel Discussion 2021

The movie CODED BIAS by Shalini Kantayya explores the fallout of MIT media lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

Image from Coded Bias.

Algorithmic bias can affect anyone. To increase awareness of this phenomenon, we are hosting a free virtual screening of Coded Bias through the Women Techmakers Program and Tokyo Institute of Technology's Online Education Development Office from January 22 to 24, 2021 Japan time. This will be followed by a panel discussion with AI ethics movers in Japan on January 25, 2021 from 7:30PM to 9:00PM Japan time. You can mingle with other film viewers and AI ethics enthusiasts in raising questions for the panel discussion every 8:00PM to 8:30PM Japan time during the screening days. Please refer to the flyer for more details.

The slots are limited to 100 and we will be giving priority to students who can join our panel discussion as well. If selected, we will be sending you the watch links on January 20, 2021. Registration is open until January 18, 2021.

While at it, please consider enrolling in our online course about Science, Engineering, Data, and AI ethics on edX (for Tokyo Tech students; for the public).

Details

Title: Coded Bias Free Virtual Screening and Online Panel Discussion 2021

Organizers: May Kristine Jonson Carlon - Cross Laboratory, Tokyo Tech Online Education Development Office

Venue: Online

Date: Film Showing - January 22 ~ 24, 2021; Online Discussion - January 25, 2021