If you are a fan of Science fiction web series and documentary movies, then, you must give it a try to this surreal web series, which is quite trending on social media. The name of this amazing documentary movie is “Coded Bias” which has already streamed on 5th April 2021 on Netflix. The documentary raises various issues and mostly related to technology dominance in our society and as a matter of fact, this is something that we all need to look at and understand and that is one of the reasons why this documentary has been released on Netflix.
The genre of the series is Science and Nature, Cultural and Social documentary. This amazing documentary is directed under the direction of Shalini Kantayya and is produced by Michael Neddoes, Shalina Kantayya, and Sabine Hoffman, while Steve Acevedo has done the cinematography of the series.
Coded Bias Documentary Movie: Plot
The documentary movie highlights the main argument which is technology and algorithmic bias. In a short clip of the documentary, we saw Joy Buolamwini sharing her experience on this issue. She said that during her semester year at MIT, there was a computer vision software, the main task of which was to track the face of people. The software did not work for her until she put on a white mask and from there on she got a clear picture of tech biases.
She also said that when she showed her face hand instead of her face, the software worked and again when one of her roommate who was white drew her face in front of the vision software, it worked again, but when she came face to face with that recognition software, the Artificial Intelligence did not recognise her face and that is were Joy felt invisible. This was not just the story of a single person, but there were a lot of people like Joy who faced this technology bias issue.
Coded Bias Documentary Movie: Cast
As this is a documentary movie, we would like to clarify that the person shown in the movie are showcasing their real self. These people pointed out the key issues and problems that they faced in their day to day life because of AI and also made the people realise that technology bias is because of the inclination of the developer. People embed their unconscious biases into technology.
- Cathy O’Neil
- Jenny Jones
- Jim Jordan
- Joy Buolamwini
- Kc Solaris
- Silkie Carlo
- Tranae Moran and others.
Some of them are researchers, while some of them are advocates, computer scientist and their opinion in this issues matter and means a lot, as they know better than anybody else, what this technology is capable of doing. The tag line of the documentary, “The battle for civil rights in the 21st century”, clearly depicts that the movie highlights the threats tech and Artificial Intelligence poses to civil rights and democracy. “Coded Bias” has streamed on 5th April 2021 on Netflix. Stay tuned with us for the more latest updates.
