Building an Ethical Algorithmic World: A 3-Part Series

Part 2: Q&A with Coded Bias Director Shalini Kantayya

Speaker: Shalini Kantayya

November 2nd, 2021, 5:00pm

Building an Ethical Algorithmic World: A 3-Part Series

Interested in the ethics of algorithms? Concerned with the current biases within algorithms and the dangers these biases pose to particular groups of people (e.g. women and darker-skinned people)? Join the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Health Cluster Alliance in this three-part Algorithmic Bias event to delve deeper into this issue. First watch a free screening of “Coded Bias”, then join a live Q&A session with the film’s director Shalini Kantayya. Finally, attend a panel discussion with experts Marc-Antoine Dilhac (Canada Research Chair in Public Ethics and Political Theory), Aline Talhouk (Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, UBC), and Mijung Park (Canada CIFAR AI Chair).

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Part 2: Q&A with Coded Bias Director Shalini Kantayya

November 2nd
5:00pm

Coded Bias –A film by Shalini Kantayya

Film Summary: When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that most facial-recognition software misidentifies women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms.

This event is brought to you by the JEDI Health Cluster Alliance, and hosted by DFP, BMI AI, CAIDA, DASH, Brain Circuits, and the UW Computational Neuroscience Centre.

Read more about the JEDI Health Cluster Alliance here.

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI)

About the speaker

Shalini Kantayya

Film Director & Producer

Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya’s, Coded Bias, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. Coded Bias was broadcast nationally on PBS Emmy-award winning series Independent Lens and will stream globally on Netflix in April 2021. The film won a SIMA Award for Best Director, and has been nominated for a Critics’ Choice, a Cinema Eye Honors, and NAACP Image Award, among others. Shalini’s debut feature, Catching the Sun, premiered at the LA Film Festival and was named a NY Times Critics’ Pick. Catching the Sun released globally on Netflix on Earth Day 2016 with Executive Producer Leonardo DiCaprio, and was nominated for the Environmental Media Association Award for Best Documentary. She directed the season finale of the National Geographic television series Breakthrough, Executive Produced by Ron Howard, broadcast globally in June 2017. She has also directed for NOVA and YouTube Originals. Shalini is a TED Fellow, a William J. Fulbright Scholar, and an Associate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.