Drama  •  2025  •  74 min

Humans in the Loop (2025)

Humans in the Loop poster

Humans in the Loop (2025)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Family Values: Leans Progressive

Viewer Rating
7.0

Overview

A 74-minute Indian drama about an Adivasi woman from the Oraon tribe who returns to her village, takes a remote data-labeling job to support her children, and gradually realizes that the AI systems she feeds are reproducing the biases of whoever built them. That premise lands squarely in Progressive territory. The film frames algorithmic bias as a structural problem rooted in whose knowledge gets treated as default, and it places an indigenous, single mother at the center of that critique. The family structure itself reinforces the label: independence outside conventional marriage is presented as practical and dignified, not as a deficit. The critique of tech industry power dynamics adds further left valence.


Starring Cast

Geeta Guha  •   Anurag Lugun  •   Sonal Madhushankar

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

Political: Strong Left
Confidence: High

The film's central subject—an Adivasi woman's discovery of AI systems embedding biases that harm indigenous and marginalized groups—carries a strong inherent left valence as a systemic critique of technology's intersection with identity and power. The narrative frames the core problem as AI reproducing prejudices from dominant (often Western/capitalist) worldviews and champions the solution of elevating diverse, indigenous, and female perspectives to correct it.

Diversity: High
Confidence: High

The Indian drama centers on an Adivasi woman from the Oraon tribe working as an AI data labeler who uncovers biases in machine learning systems that clash with her community's knowledge. Its cast consists entirely of Indian actors in indigenous and local roles. The story explicitly explores themes of gender, indigenous perspectives, and flaws in dominant data practices.

Secondary

Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: High

The film centers on a single Adivasi mother who returns to her village with her two children after the breakdown of her live-in relationship, taking a data-labeling job to support her family and pursue custody while navigating tensions with her pre-teen daughter. This framing positively depicts non-traditional single-parent family life, maternal independence, and adaptation outside conventional marriage structures as central to the narrative.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

The film contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

The film centers on an Indigenous Adivasi woman working in AI data annotation and explores technology, labor, and cultural identity without any transgender characters or themes.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

Original screenplay with newly created fictional characters; no legacy figures, historical persons, or prior canon recast across gender lines.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

The film is an original drama about an Adivasi woman from the Oraon tribe working as a data labeler; all characters are newly created for this production with no prior canon or historical figures establishing different races.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted in the film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.0

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.3
The Movie Database logo
6.8

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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