How Normal Am I? (Tijmen Schep)
Bias & discrimination
Hands-on experimentation
What can I learn?
A Dutch-rooted, privacy-friendly 15-minute interactive documentary that judges your face for 'beauty', age, BMI, and life expectancy using facial recognition — exposing how these systems work and how unreliable they are. Made with EU SHERPA funding.
Core insight
Facial recognition systems encode cultural and historical biases into mathematical functions — what counts as 'normal' is always a political and social judgement, not a neutral measurement.
How to use it in daily work
Immediately usable as a self-learning experience and as a client-facing demonstration of how biometric AI works.
- Run it with a client who does not believe AI can be biased — seeing the system make judgements about their own face is more convincing than any abstract explanation.
- Directly relevant when clients encounter facial recognition in public spaces, workplaces, or government services.