Join us for a special screening of the critically acclaimed film, Humans in the Loop (2025), followed by a discussion with its award-winning director Aranya Sahay.

Humans in the Loop follows Nehma, an Adivasi woman from the Oraon tribe, as she returns to her ancestral village in Jharkhand, India with her children. Nehma takes up work as a 'data-labeler,' training AI systems to recognize images and objects, but soon begins to question the human bias in machine learning.

Presented as a collaborative event across the departments of English, CRPE, and the LITS AI Working Group, the screening and conversation will consider important questions around AI ethics, invisibilized labor, and anti-indigenous and gendered violence of the "tech revolution." Humans in the Loop has won multiple awards during its festival run in the US, and was recently awarded the prestigious Grand Prix by the International Federation of Film Critics in India.

Free and open to the public! 
Length: 72 minutes, Hindi w/ English Subtitles. 
Watch the trailer.

Snacks provided!

Presented by the the AI, Pedagogy, and Curriculum Institute Team, Department of English, and Department of Critical Race and Political Economy