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4.4
Shalini Kantayyas Coded Bias effectively brings to light a modern civil rights issue that can be proven with data.
Rogerebert
4.5
fascinating study of how even the seemingly impartial world of technology is subject to embedded racism and privilege.
Rogerebert
4.0
Left unregulated, Buolamwini claims, technology is like the Wild Wild West, so we need laws to make sure the technology isnt discriminatory.
Common Sense Media
4.5
Coded Bias serves as both a wake up call (to invasive practices the public doesnt yet realize are being implemented) and a call to action.
Variety
3.8
The documentary dives down the rabbit hole to chillingly, comprehensively expose how algorithms can perpetuate bias in often unforeseen and unjust way ..
4.5
But absorbing the snowballing evidence amassed here of how data can be leveraged, especially against vulnerable minorities, is like the scariest episo ..
The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
It doesnt just pop up in a neutral space, ready to serve its purpose.
4.5
For a documentary about automated technology, Coded Bias keeps its focus firmly on people: their failings, their vulnerabilities and their powers for ..
The New York Times
4.5
Coded Bias takes something huge and scary and breaks it down into small, easily understood morality tales, featuring everyday heroes fighting to save ..
4.4
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 wome ..
Rogers Movie Nation
4.5
Juliana Fanjul Juliana Fanjuls taut Radio Silence pays homage to odds defying heroism of a different stripe.
Pop Matters
4.5
In a time where we as consumers instill unrelenting trust in the people behind the screen, there has never been a more vital documentary.
Film Inquiry
3.8
Even though Coded Bias never goes as deep as it should when exploring the issues of racism and sexism, it is still a fascinating watch.
Flim Threet
3.5
Coded Bias shows a hard fought battle that isnt lost but its not over yet.
Solzy At The Movies
4.4
Vanguard: Action adventure films dont get much more terrible than this dog.
Mercury News
0.0
Director Kantayyas rallying cry makes complete sense: Data rights are human rights.
East Bay Express
3.8
Its a fascinating look at a very real aspect of our day to day lives, for some far more than others and in far more detrimental ways.
Third Coast Review
4.0
An exacting, excoriating skewering of the prejudices embedded in the algorithms used for everything from criminal identification to filtering job appl ..
Tiny Url
3.8
Perhaps the scariest thing about Coded Bias is that todays coders sometimes cant explain why their algorithms are so flawed, other than the fact that ..
Datebook Sfchronicle
1.5
Maybe The Social Dilemma doesnt have all the answers, but its a good start to figuring out the questions.
Mash Able
4.5
Racial bias, algorithms, facial recognition and badass women of color put our government on blast for using technology while rolling back privacy and ..
Wp Me
4.5
The CG graphics and text overlays can sometimes feel less than polished (more advocacy video than feature documentary).
The Spool
4.4
The draw is Buolamwinis charming personality, so powerful that when she testified before Congress, she got liberal icon Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and r ..
Movie Cricket
3.8
Kantayya weaves all of these different strands together into a compelling and unsettling documentary whose concerns about privacy and fairness transce ..
Madison
0.5
Coded Bias shows that there are women like Buolamwini...raising red flags about the bias and dangers of this technology.
That Shelf
4.5
The future need not look like the present, unless we sit by and do nothing. Kantayya and her collaborators lead by example. Let us all follow suit.
Hammer To Nail
1.5
This is Netflixs version of community theater, which I dont really mind!
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los A ..
4.5
Buolamwini doesnt mince words when she says: The progress made in the Civil Rights Era could be rolled back in the guise of machine neutrality Left un ..
4.0
Smile, youre on covert camera. Coded Bias offers lots of valuable information about just how important it is to get engaged right now in how AI is imp ..
Awfj
0.5
Paranoia strikes deep in director Shalini Kantayyas Coded Bias, which brings to light how tech companies use of facial recognition that is built upon ..
Awfj
3.5
...offers a much needed reminder that technology is not neutral instead, it embodies the assumptions and prejudices of those that build it.
The Arts St L
1.0
Female campaigners are taking the lead in this area, pressing governments to introduce new laws and take urgent action
Backseat Mafia
4.5
A sobering look at how, rather than a hypothetical sci fi scenario, in many ways we already live under a high tech police state.
Hyperallergic
4.5
Reminiscent of nihilistic, noose tightening 70s thrillers like Night Moves and The Nickel Ride, with a dash of economic inequality critique, Disrupted ..
48 Hills
3.5
And if all of those cameras, and the code behind them, have a biased gaze, theres no telling what kind of noirish hellscape awaits us.
4.5
Unconscious bias in algorithms further widens socio economic disparities.
Pov Magazine
5.0
Coded Bias shows us an intriguing and frightening path of systemic and racial/gender bias in an artificial device meant to be neutral.
View From The Dark
4.5
Kantayya makes a strong and compelling argument that everyone needs to pay attention to. Not only do we need to be talking about this, but we, the peo ..
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