General Event

Q&A with Coded Bias Director Shalini Kantayya

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This Q&A with Coded Bias Director Shalini Kantayya is the second installment of "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 us 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), Mijung Park (Canada CIFAR AI Chair), and Blaise Agüera y Arcas (VP and Research Fellow, Google Research); moderated by Azim Shariff (Associate Professor and Research Chair, Psychology, UBC).  

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. 

You can watch the film at any time between October 26th - November 2nd using our provided link (please register to receive the link).  The film is also available on Netflix.  

Hosted by the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Health Cluster Alliance

Please register for this event here.