Coded Bias

Name: Coded Bias
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 11, 2020
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Cathy O'Neil, Jenny Jones, Joy Buolamwini, Kc Solaris, Mark Zuckerberg

2020

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Movie Details & Credits

Release Date (Streaming): November 11, 2020

Starring: Cathy O'Neil, Jenny Jones, Joy Buolamwini, Kc Solaris, Mark Zuckerberg, Meredith Broussard, Silkie Carlo, Tranae Moran, Zaynep Tufekci

Summary: An exploration of the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery of racial bias in facial recognition algorithms.

Director: Shalini Kantayya

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 90 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Dec 7, 2020

The 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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Nov 11, 2020

Throughout, 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. Read full review

Jenny Nulf

Nov 19, 2020

Coded 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. Read full review

Derek Smith

Nov 7, 2020

The documentary dives down the rabbit hole to chillingly, comprehensively expose how algorithms can perpetuate bias in often unforeseen and unjust ways. Read full review

David Lewis

Nov 19, 2020

San 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. Read full review

Devika Girish

Nov 11, 2020

The 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. Read full review

Noel Murray

Nov 23, 2020

The 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. Read full review

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trk54ylmz

Apr 8, 2021

I don't get it how this documentary gets 73. in terms of tech, contains so much incorrect information about how ML works.

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NicoCC

May 6, 2021

This 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, orThis 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.… Expand

1 of 3 users found this helpful12

TrevorLayhey

Apr 6, 2021

Terrible film, full of bad information and misleading perspectives. Toxic to anyone in tech.

3 of 3 users found this helpful30

dudeNoVenmo

Jun 9, 2021

Malcolm X championed segregation. Its not overtly clear to me that these film makers yearn for collaborative integration. They seem a bit mad, really.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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