This is the documentary you watch with your middle schooler before they get their first smartphone, or with your high schooler before they apply to college through algorithm-powered admissions systems.
Joy Buolamwini's discovery that facial recognition couldn't see her dark-skinned face accurately launches an investigation into how AI systems encode and amplify racial bias—affecting everything from hiring to policing to healthcare. It's not flashy, but it's essential. The kind of media literacy education that matters in 2025.
The 100% critic score vs 60% audience score tells you something: critics recognize its importance, but general audiences sometimes find it heavy-handed or one-note. Fair. It has a clear point of view. But for families wanting to raise kids who think critically about technology instead of just consuming it? This is gold.
A couple f-bombs and slurs (shown as AI outputs) mean it's not for elementary schoolers, but tweens and up can handle it and should see it. Available on Netflix, so no excuse.





