In celebration of National Minority Health Month, the Department of Biostatistics will be hosting a movie screening of the 2020 documentary film Coded Bias. The use of AI is rapid and yet regulations and policies are slow to come. In healthcare, how will this impact the care for and research on minority groups? Will data be able to mitigate potential misstep?

Join us next month to watch the film with Dr. Rumi Chunara. Lunch will be provided, RSVP below to confirm your attendance. 

CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s 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.