The actor’s Institute on Gender in Media has announced a new machine-learning tool, to be piloted by Disney, that can analyse scripts and reveal unconscious biases
Actor and equality campaigner Geena Davis has announced that
Disney has adopted a digital tool that will analyse scripts and identify opportunities to rectify any gender and ethnic biases.
Davis, founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, was speaking at the Power of Inclusion event in
New Zealand, where she outlined the development of GD-IQ: Spellcheck for Bias, a machine learning tool described as “an intervention tool to infuse diversity and inclusion in entertainment and media”. Developed by the University of Southern
California Viterbi School of Engineering, the Spellcheck for Bias is designed to analyse a script and determine the percentages of characters’ “gender, race, LGBTQIA [and] disabilities”. It can also track the percentage of “non-gender-defined speaking characters”.