Coded Bias

"Thought-provoking. ‘Coded Bias’ serves as both a wake-up call (to invasive practices the public doesn’t yet realize are being implemented) and a call to action."

"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."

"Terrifying. Coded Bias takes you to the front lines of the digital revolution."

"‘Coded Bias’ is an eye-opening and important film that calls attention to a movement of resistance led by badass female data scientists and grassroots organizations examining an important civil liberties matter."

"A fascinating study of how even the seemingly impartial world of technology is subject to embedded racism and privilege."

"CODED BIAS isn’t just directed by and centered around a woman. The doc is dominated by women. Expert interviews tend to skew pale and male, especially in STEM docs, but CODED BIAS highlights the voices of women, and particularly women of color, in a rare and welcome change."

"Digs into how these technologies addict us, extract data from us for profit or control, or inadvertently work against already marginalized people."

"A chilling plunge into Orwellian reality."

"A sci-fi thriller dressed up a documentary's clothes, CODED BIAS is one of the most fascinating festival films in a lineup already filled with engrossing options."

"***1/2. CODED BIAS exemplifies the power of free will, which includes our right to learn about something, and the right to shut it down."

"The film is certainly realistic about the possibility of our increasing technological progress moving our society into a dystopia. But Kantayya and Buolamwini also keenly understand that if the dangers of A.I. are understood and addressed, it’s a tool that can ultimately do more good than harm."

"In a year where conversations about racial and criminal justice are more important than ever, Coded Bias‘ broader points about the way the tech industry projects its own gender and racial biases onto its technologies ring particularly true."

"Insightful documentary CODED BIAS doesn't just begin with face recognition: it recognizes the women facing the future."

"By centering the voices and stories of brilliant women and people of color who have exposed dangerous biases in coding, algorithms, and technologies, CODED BIAS is a much-needed antidote to cultural stories and media that reproduce -- instead of challenge -- the dominance of white male expertise in tech. Everyone needs to see this film, so we can collectively understand the fight for racial justice happening on the new frontiers of code and computer science."

"Coded Bias lays plain so many of the pitfalls of AI and makes the danger impossible to ignore. It is a political, feminist issue."

"Coded Bias is the intersection of social justice and computer science. It wakes us up to the need for a diverse body of programmers to protect us from the technology we have created."

"An impressively extensive documentary on how racism and sexism creep into the unseen algorithms that control our lives, told by women activists who’re fighting the big tech companies that hold the code."