jill boniske

Galaxy Quest is one of my favorite repeat view movies. It's a total sendup of the Star Trek series and its many permutations. But it's also a great comedy with a fabulous cast who do the script proud.

CODED BIAS is a truly frightening film. It explores all the ways that algorithms are controlling our lives, but scarier still how biased they are and what they can do to us. At the center of the film is Joy Buolamwini an MIT Media Lab researcher who created the Algorithmic Justice League after finding that flawed Facial Recognition software is being rolled out with no regulation and with inherent biases against women and people of color. She points out that we have naively given unfettered power to AI in so many areas of our lives and that our blind faith in big data is dangerous. You’ll be looking at what kinds of information you share online in a very different way after viewing this film. Be afraid.