Video Series

If machines are learning, who is teaching them?

This project raises awareness to our responsibility for the consequences of the biases we are embedding in the codes that control our systems.

The project consist of a video series.
In each video people go into a conversation with an algorithm. The algorithm asks them all kinds of questions like: What’s your favourite emoji? How do I know when you’re lying? Who should I hire for this job? What is love? The people are instructed to train an unbiased algorithm, but are they able to feed it with unbiased data?

This work was created during a five days prototyping session at MESA in São Paulo (Brazil) led by designer Rogier Klomp with a mixed group of data analysts, coders, anthropologists, film makers, designers and journalists.

Contributors: Carol Leslie, Denis Russo Burgierman, Fernanda Monteiro, Gil Bottari, João França, Hui Jin Park, Letícia Ange Pozza Lucas Terra, Luiz Braz, Michel Alcoforado, Renata Simões, Ze Porto, Rafael Bueno, Felipe Griebel, Giuliana Tatini, Juliana Chies Cainelli and Valentina Ferrari.