Clear-minded and led by charismatic subjects, Coded Bias succeeds despite its shortfalls to offer a haunting takedown of AI evangelism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2025

By the time CODED BIAS ends, it opens the floodgates to countless hours of discussion on not just the legality, but morality of the interconnected world around us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2024

It’s far too big a topic for a single film, especially such a succinct one, and Coded Bias struggles to connect the dots among the various issues. What it does do, however, is make the case that these technologies ... have, well, coded bias.

| Aug 17, 2022

Far from a Luddite's complaint, director Shalini Kantayya's Coded Bias brings in expert AI and tech voices, to warn the public how widespread use of this technology, by business and government, can actually reinforce discrimination.

| Dec 2, 2021

We might all be in need of and very keen on watching escapist comedies during the ongoing pandemic social restrictions, but this compelling documentary is an important and timely film.

| Dec 2, 2021

[A] chilling message is at the heart of Coded Bias, Shalini Kantayya's extremely timely documentary about the power of AI and facial recognition technology...

| Dec 2, 2021

Coded Bias is a powerful reminder that for computers as well as humans, representation matters.

| Dec 2, 2021

This fascinating, insightful and timely documentary takes a deep dive into the artificial intelligence revolution, and examines how software like facial recognition and algorithmic learning is proving to be, like the world around it, systemically biased.

| Dec 2, 2021

We can do better... but only if we understand what is happening, and what is at stake. This film does an excellent job of doing that.

| Dec 2, 2021

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.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 2, 2021

Coded Bias is an essential warning, but it isn't here to plunge you into existential despair as you sink back into doom-scrolling on your smartphone.

| Dec 2, 2021

This is "Who Watches the Watchmen?" as it is unfolding in real life. Very recommended.

| Apr 22, 2021

Kantayya's film, while overtly about technology, offers a greater essay on gatekeeping and decision-making.

| Feb 12, 2021

The documentary is energetic and mostly on-point... One hopes Buolamwini is given a wider forum to remind the world that algorithms are only as fair as they are consciously designed to be.

| Feb 2, 2021

...offers a much-needed reminder that technology is not neutral-instead, it embodies the assumptions and prejudices of those that build it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 19, 2020

Female campaigners are taking the lead in this area, pressing governments to introduce new laws and take urgent action

| Dec 17, 2020

Paranoia strikes deep in director Shalini Kantayya's Coded Bias, which brings to light how tech companies use of facial recognition that is built upon an algorithm that is inherently racist and biased against females.

| Dec 10, 2020

Sends chills down your spine.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 10, 2020

Kantayya weaves all of these different strands together into a compelling and unsettling documentary whose concerns about privacy and fairness transcend partisan divisions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2020

It's 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2020