InScience Film Festival (English)

Coded Bias
za 21 nov 19:00
za 21 nov ’20
19:00
  • za 21 nov ’20
    19:00
    Theater de Veste

In collaboration with Studium Generale TU Delft and the Bèta Balie Delft, we are proud to present the first satellite edition of the InScience Film Festival in Delft. All films are introduced by an expert and after the film, there is an opportunity for discussion.

Coded Bias

Coded Bias is een indringende, actuele documentaire over een onverwachts pijnlijk gevolg van onze moderne technologie. Tijdens haar werk aan de Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, komt mediaonderzoeker Joy Buolamwini erachter dat gezichtsherkenningssoftware moeite heeft haar gezicht te herkennen. De reden? Haar huidskleur. Ze start een onderzoek naar de impliciete vooroordelen in kunstmatige intelligentie en ontdekt dat veel algoritmes, die vooral door witte mannen gemaakt worden, anders – of niet – reageren op mensen die dit niet zijn. Samen met andere vrouwen strijdt Joy voor rechtvaardigheid in de geautomatiseerde samenleving van vandaag.

One day media researcher Joy Buolamwini of MIT finds out that facial recognition programs have difficulty in recognizing her dark face. This leads to further research on racial identity and artificial intelligence and quickly it turns out that consciously or not a lot of algorithms have a bias against people with different skin colors. In this film we follow Joy during her research while she joins forces with other women who also try to improve civil rights in algorithms.

Introduction and discussion with Alessandro Bozzon

Alessandro Bozzon is Professor and Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence with the Department of Design Engineering of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE). His work focuses on Crowd Computing, which advocates for the adoption of human intelligence at scale to improve the performance of artificial intelligence systems in terms of accuracy and adherence to people’s values, goals and needs.

InScience Festival

InScience is one of the largest science film festivals in Europe, and unique to The Netherlands. The festival is aimed at the intersection between film, science and society. The programme consists of science films, debates and an educational programme for children and youth. The sixth edition of the festival takes place between 11 and 15 november in and around LUX Nijmegen.

Van 11-15 november 2020 vindt de zesde editie van InScience – International Science Film Festival Nijmegen plaats. InScience is hét festival in Nederland voor de wetenschapsfilm. Samen met Studium Generale TU Delft en Bèta Balie Delft brengen we drie van de mooiste films naar het theater. De films worden begeleid door verdiepende lezingen van, en gesprekken met wetenschappers van TU Delft. De films en de lezingen zijn Engelstalig.