When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all.... (Full plot summary below)
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When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all.
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| Movie NationRoger MooreThe best “wake up” call documentary of 2020, a movie filled with warnings discussed by the very smart women sounding those warnings, the very smart women doing something about this very real threat. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenThroughout, Coded Bias constantly feels like it's not recounting a saga that’s like grounded science-fiction, it’s making us aware that we're square in the middle of one. |
| San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSan Francisco was the first major U.S. city to forbid the police and other agencies from using facial recognition technology — and the persuasive documentary Coded Bias makes it easy to understand why. |
| Austin ChronicleJenny NulfCoded Bias is not interested in wallowing in despair for the future, like many tech-infused documentaries like to do. Kantayya wants to inform and inspire change. |
| Slant MagazineDerek SmithThe documentary dives down the rabbit hole to chillingly, comprehensively expose how algorithms can perpetuate bias in often unforeseen and unjust ways. |
| The New York TimesDevika GirishThe most cleareyed of several recent documentaries about the perils of Big Tech (“The Great Hack,” “The Social Dilemma”), Coded Bias tackles its sprawling subject by zeroing in empathetically on the human costs. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe movie as a whole tends to circle the same points, becoming less bracing the longer it runs. Still, for the most part, Coded Bias takes something huge and scary and breaks it down into small, easily understood morality tales, featuring everyday heroes fighting to save our future. |
| User Reviewtrk54ylmzI don't get it how this documentary gets 73. in terms of tech, contains so much incorrect information about how ML works. |
| User ReviewdudeNoVenmoMalcolm X championed segregation. Its not overtly clear to me that these film makers yearn for collaborative integration. They seem a bit mad, really. |
| User ReviewNicoCCThis right here is a perfect example of the leftist-communist ideology. You have people who don't know a thing about the subject they provide opinions on, and they proceed with such certainty (and arrogance) to pass it off as "fact"; with the intent to place blame, destroy reputation, or generate hate towards another race, class, or gender. This documentary is made by mentally ill people and they need to seek help. They see race and racism in everything. This is an example of the way they think: if a black man and a white man both walk into a store at the same time, and if the clerk helps the black man first, then the clerk is racist because he doesn't trust the black man to walk around the store by himself. However, if the clerk helps the white man, then he's racist because he sees the black man as a second-class citizen. This is the same ideology that produced this documentary. Again, only an ill mind could come up with such an argument and waste money producing such garbage. |
