Coded Bias (2020)
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Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
- Released: 2020-11-11
- Genres: Documentary
- Runtime: 1h 26m
- Status: Released
- TMDB rating: 6.9/10 from 65 votes
Directed by Shalini Kantayya.
Top cast
- Joy Buolamwini as Self
- Cathy O'Neil as Self
- Meredith Broussard as Self
- Silkie Carlo as Self
- Virginia Eubanks as Self
- Ravi Naik as Self
- Safiya Umoja Noble as Self
- Zeynep Tufekci as Self
- Jim Jordan as Self
Where to watch Coded Bias
- United States: watch free on Kanopy, Hoopla, Darkroom; rent on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube; buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube
- United Kingdom: rent on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video; buy on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
- Canada: watch free on Hoopla; rent on Apple TV Store; buy on Apple TV Store
- Australia: watch free on Hoopla
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