A Drop of Life, 2007 and
Catching the Sun, 2015)—began streaming globally on Netflix in April. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2020 and has since received positive reviews and several awards including Best International Documentary at the 2020 Calgary International Film Festival.
The central argument of
Coded Bias is that the computer algorithms used in artificial intelligence, machine learning and facial recognition systems are “embedded” with the race and gender biases of society as a whole.
Coded Bias (2020)
In developing this theme, the documentary features the work of Joy Buolamwini, an African-American MIT Media Lab researcher and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League who has specialized in uncovering such biases in facial recognition technologies.