Clear, concise, and comprehensive: An exploration into the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery of racial bias in facial recognition algorithms, CODED BIAS (2020, 90 min) offers a chilling look at largely unseen side effects of modern society’s algorithmic underpinnings. Far from a Luddite complaint, director Shalini Kantayya’s documentary brings in expert AI and tech voices, to warn the public how the widespread use of this technology, by businesses and the government, can actually reinforce discrimination.

English subtitles.
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