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

| Dec 2, 2021

A wake-up call and a call to action.

| Nov 21, 2020

It's really good. An eye-opener.

| Nov 21, 2020

You really walk away with the sense "Oh, this is just everywhere, and we have to stop and talk about it right now before it gets out of hand."

| Nov 21, 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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 20, 2020

"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.

| Nov 20, 2020

Katnayya's documentary and its unsettling findings should be mandatory viewing for Silicon Valley innovators.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 19, 2020

A movie about algorithms might sound boring to the non-hacker crowd, but Kantayya keeps things lively and easy to understand by avoiding technobabble and personalizing her story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2020

For a documentary about automated technology, "Coded Bias" keeps its focus firmly on people: their failings, their vulnerabilities and their powers for good.

| Nov 11, 2020

Shalini Kantayya's Coded Bias effectively brings to light a modern civil rights issue that can be proven with data.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 11, 2020

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2020

A chilling plunge into Orwellian reality.

| Jul 24, 2020

"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.

| Feb 13, 2020

Without shying away the issue's enormity or its devastating consequences, Coded Bias gradually works toward almost inspirational vibe, as Buolamwini and others get to work solving the problem they've identified.

| Feb 3, 2020

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

| Jan 29, 2020