Coded Bias review: An eye-opening account of the dangers of AI

IN HER first semester as a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, Joy Buolamwini encountered a peculiar problem. Commercial face-recognition software, which detected her light-skinned classmates just fine, couldn't "see" her face. Until, that is, she donned a white plastic mask in frustration. Coded Bias is a timely, thought-provoking documentary from director Shalini Kantayya. It follows Buolamwini's journey to uncover racial and sexist bias in face-recognition software and other artificial intelligence systems.